I can't reach out personally to each of you, but just know it has meant the world to me." She concluded the post with a ...

"Like, right before getting on a stage to sing 'I Will Always Love You.' I was like ... she’d rather "not sing something like" Parton's 1974 classic. "What I do think, though, and I'm thankful ...

And I have been a member of the Opry for 56 years." The stirring performance of "I Will Always Love You," Parton's emotional 1974 ballad, follows the death of her husband, Carl Dean, on March 3.