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Still Woman Enough is a 2002 autobiography of American country music singer Loretta Lynn, written by Lynn and Patsi Bale Cox. [1] The book discusses, in-depth, Lynn's life, from her early days in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, as the daughter of a coal miner, her marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, her musical career, and personal triumphs and trials in Lynn's life up to the time the book was written.

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References

  1. Lynn, L.; Cox, P.B. (2002). Still Woman Enough: A Memoir. Hyperion Books. ISBN   9780786866502 . Retrieved 2015-07-24.