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I was not familiar with this doctor, but I think this is one of the best tributes I have read so far.

With over 2 million followers across socials, Neal K. Shah is a Johns Hopkins- and NIH-funded caregiving researcher, and CEO of CareYaya. He discusses topics relevant to older adults and caregivers, those caring for loved ones with dementia, cancer and serious illness.

Dr. Shah’s words:

Dolly Parton spent her 80th birthday giving a GIFT to help others fight cancer. Seven months later, cancer took her life. What almost nobody knows is what she was hiding while she did it.

Dolly Parton died on August 25, 2026 at age 80 at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, after what her team called a brief battle with cancer. The tributes are already pouring in for the rhinestones, the wigs, the laugh and the songs. But I think the MOST important part of her story is the part almost nobody is talking about.

In this video I break down three things very few people know about Dolly Parton’s final chapter, and why the third one matters enormously for anyone facing a serious diagnosis or caring for someone who is.

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We should do this every day. Some days are more eventful than others, however.

Post from “X”:

Today on Earth, a man drove from California to Washington with a guillotine in the back of his truck and parked it near the Capitol.

Trump threatened to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.”

Iranian state television aired a threat against Barron Trump.

The United States prepared to revoke as many as 200,000 visas.

Instagram’s CEO testified in a trial accusing Meta of deliberately addicting children, where we learned that only 1.8 percent of teens activated its “Take a Break” feature before the company finally made it automatic.

Archaeologists discovered a 6,500-year-old structure aligned with the sun and moon, proving that people living 1,000 years before Stonehenge may have understood the universe better than we understand social media.

A mother coyote chased a bear away from a Los Angeles home, making her the most competent security system in California.

And Dolly Parton died at 80.

The woman who came from nothing, wrote songs the entire world knew, gave millions of children free books and somehow managed to become famous without becoming unbearable is gone.

That was one day on Earth.

See you tomorrow. If the man with the guillotine doesn’t get appointed to Congress first. 🌎

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