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South Carolina First Steps and Miss South Carolina Organization partner up to promote early literacy Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina First Steps and the Miss South Carolina Organization have partnered up to promote early literacy. The groups pledged Tuesday to jointly support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which sends one book a month to children from birth to age 5. This is the first time Miss South Carolina contestants have had a statewide platform. The contestants will try to raise funds and awareness of early literacy, as well as register children. The library currently operates in 17 counties in South Carolina through schools, libraries, United Way offices and First Steps programs. Country singer Dolly Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1996 her home of Sevier County, Tenn. It has since spread throughout Tennessee and to other states. | |||