New Delhi, June 26 -- CORNERSVILLE, Tenn. - A month after canceling her Las Vegas residency because her immune system would not cooperate, Dolly Parton showed up at a truck stop in Cornersville, Tennessee, on Wednesday in stiletto heels and a pink-and-blue fringe jacket, cut a ribbon, and told the crowd what the road deserves.

The 80-year-old country music icon's appearance at the grand opening of Dolly's Tennessean Travel Stop was her first public outing since she announced in May that deteriorating health had forced her to scrap a planned six-show engagement at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. She did not perform. But she was there, in heels, with a name tag that simply read "Dolly," and that turned out to be enough.

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