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She is a wonderful person. One of the best.

Dolly Parton has announced plans to donate $1 million to Vanderbilt University's COVID-19 research efforts.

"My longtime friend Dr. Naji Abumrad, who's been involved in research at Vanderbilt for many years, informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards research of the coronavirus for a cure. I am making a donation of $1 million to Vanderbilt towards that research and to encourage people that can afford it to make donations," she wrote in an Instagram post.

Parton and Abumrad have been friends since 2014, when he treated her after a minor car accident.

The years-long friendship between the two was explored in the podcast Dolly Parton's America, hosted by public radio veteran Jad Abumrad.

"At some point, Jad realized that there was someone calling on his father's phone and their name was an interesting pseudonym. He asked his dad about it and he says, 'Oh, it's Dolly. I just help out when she needs some advice,'" Dolly Parton's America producer Shima Oliaee said in an interview with Pocket Casts. "He's a good friend that advises her when she has a question. So that was the first step."