It is nearly eleven o'clock at night when I check into my hotel in Tennessee after a flight from Washington. A few hours earlier, it had become known that country icon Dolly Parton had passed away. There is another latecomer standing in front of me. "That was Joe Fryer from NBC," says the receptionist with wide eyes when it is my turn. "Are you a journalist too?"
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