“Well, there’s a lot of truth in that.

We’re not in each other’s faces all the time.

That doesn’t mean Parton and Dean don’t enjoy each other’s company when she is home.

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Perhaps that’s because seeing each other is often fresh and new.

“My husband and I always had a great friendship,” Parton said.

He’s pretty much a loner and a homebody, and I’m a gypsy.

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But when I’m home, I love that.

We don’t do the same thing so it gives us different stuff to talk about.”