When I think of Kenny Rogers

I loved Dolly Parton and before I knew she was married I always pictured her and Kenny Rogers as a couple. To me, Kenny Rogers was the most handsome older man I'd ever seen, and to me, it was only natural that he be paired with the most beautiful woman I had ever seen at the time which was Dolly. 

Growing up country music was all that was played at my home and I hated it. It felt like some sort of cruel abuse heaped onto me that just happen to be legal. They would play those nasal-sounding depressing songs that made you want to barf for hours when we would go on trips and the only few breaks I would ever get on these trips from ear suicide would be Kenny Rogers, and Dolly Parton's soft, Angelic voices. To me, they were the dream team.

I remember playing on my living room floor and dreaming about Dolly and Kenny being a couple, and how great it would be, and wondering what would the music world ever do if this was to happen. Why their kids would be music royalty in my child's mind, but alas years I soon learned Kenny had married a woman from the Hee Haw show and then years later I would find that Dolly had also been married and been so for years. Funny I had never heard or seen who he was at the time.

It wasn't too long after this that Kenny did the most horrific thing he could do and that's EEEEK plastic surgery. Even though his face was now ruined I still thought of him fondly, but I no longer thought of him and Dolly as the perfect couple.