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Dolly Parton died this week in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 80.If you live outside of Tennessee, you're likely going to be puzzled, in the coming days and weeks, by the way her passing is about to dominate your social media feeds. Because you're going to see post after post from people down here, all mourning this woman they've never met. Some of those posts will be maudlin. Corny. Some, God knows, will include folks holding up candles and crying and holding impromptu wakes in a Dollywood parking lot. One of them will be this one. I'll try to help you understand why.