and just one more thing. Since I am indeed an aging White woman, what I write about Dolly touches me, as it inevitably has to. We speak to what we need to learn in our articles, which many writers neither realize nor accept, but if you an "explorer of inner worlds" as you state, then this is obvious to you. Or not. I don't know anyone else's inner worlds, albeit it's remarkable how many love to dictate to me what I really mean (that's not directed at you, that's a general statement about commenters). Since they don't live in this skin suit, since they haven't lived this life, paid the prices I have for my perspective or know what I care the most about, that's the height of hubris and arrogance. And, of course, they are accusing me of what they are themselves doing, which of course is one of the very first things we learn in Psych 101. But that's another article, and I've written plenty about that too.