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The flags are down. The Empire State Building is glowing pink. And on every feed I open, someone is posting the same three words: "rest in peace." Dolly Parton died on August 25th, at 80, and it's landed like a hand pressed flat against the chest of the whole country — maybe the whole world. I keep coming back to a simple, strange fact - I can't think of another public figure whose death would pull grief out of people who agree on almost nothing else. Not politics. Not religi