Here's what else Parton has said about Dean over the years, including the comments she made just months before his death.

Arms, take your last embrace! and lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death. Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3 If I must die I will ...

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