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    'Coat of Many Colors'
    -- Dolly Parton (1971)


    The bottom lines: "Although we had no money, I was rich as I could be/In my coat of many colors my mama made for me."

    When a girl proudly displays her new, multi-colored coat, lovingly sewn by her mother from donated rags, her classmates mock her poverty -- though, until that moment, she'd never considered herself poor.

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