If you find in the coming days what feels like an outsized reaction to Dolly Parton’s death – no you didn’t.

The loss is just that great. Especially here, where I’m writing from in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just about two hours from her birthplace in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

Dolly was one of one. She was larger than life. A generational musical talent, a transcendent political figure who seemed to be........

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