Comment by tclancy

That's so hard though. I feel like she was a 1 in 1 like a lot of great people. Trying to draw a trend line feels impossible. Like ...

  - amazing voice
  - amazing songwriter
  - talented actress
  - an icon for attractiveness in the 80s who was self-effacing about it
  - embraced her fans of all kinds (imagine someone born when she was being so comfortable with people of all races and stripes)
  - just a permanently positive force

Not a lot of people in my lifetime (1975-present) have _no one_ bad-mouthing them. And I am sure there's someone out there bad-mouthing Dolly, but c'mon.