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Culture November 25, 2021

Dolly Parton shares rare throwback photo with husband Carl Thomas Dean

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Dolly Parton gave fans something to celebrate this Thanksgiving.

The country music legend shared a rare throwback photo with her longtime husband, Carl Thomas Dean, when wishing everyone a happy holiday on social media.

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"Happy #Thanksgiving from me and mine to you and yours," Parton, 75, wrote on Thursday, adding a red heart emoji to the end of her message.

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The "Jolene" singer and Dean wed in 1966. Dean has maintained a sense of privacy throughout their marriage despite Parton's superstar status in the country music world.

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Last year Parton opened up to "Good Morning America" about her life with Dean.

"He's pretty much a loner and a homebody, and I'm a gypsy. But when I'm home, I love that," she said at the time. "We don't do the same thing so it gives us different stuff to talk about. He doesn't get involved in my business, and I don't in his, so we have our own little world that we create for ourselves."