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The heartbreaking death of country music icon Loretta Lynnwas announced on the morning of October 4.
She was 90 years old.

Accompanying the announcement was a recent photograph of Lynn smiling and playing her guitar.
In the wake of her passing, this reflective reference seems all the more meaningful.
Lynn had no shortage of passion (and a whole trunk of heartbreak) to draw inspiration from.

In 1988, the singer was inducted into theCountry Music Hall of Fame.
Throughout her decades-long career, the singer wrote two other memoirs.
I had to."
