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239 “He had a Pepsi”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
239 “He loved to pull tricks”: Ibid.
239 “He’d always come to me”: Ibid.
239 “I love you”: Elvis Presley love note to Anita Wood, reproduced as an illustration in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
239 “And gullible me”: Anita Wood to author, 2009.
239 “That got to be”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
239 “One time Anita went out shopping”: Marty Lacker to author, 1993.
240 “They were all available”: Anita Wood to author, 2009.
240 “He called me”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
240 “But really and truly”: Ibid.
241 “The Colonel had put me on Nipper Control”: From the Playboy article “In Bed with Elvis,” by Byron Raphael and Alanna Nash, November 2005.
242 “Elvis did not do”: Gordon Stoker, quoted on the Web site Elvis Presley Music.
242 “far too indecent”: New York Journal-American, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley.
242 “He was on the floor”: Kevin Eggers to author, 2009.
242 “Sexhibitionist”: Dick Williams, Los Angeles Mirror-News, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Last Train to Memphis.
242 “group-fucked 10,000 people”: Kevin Eggers, quoting Ricky Nelson to author, 2009.
243 “You should have been here last night!” Elvis Presley to the audience, quoted on the Web site Elvis Presley Music.
243 “I was a goner”: Coplon, Jeff, and Cher, The First Time.
243 “When I saw him”: Cher to author, 2009. All remaining quotes from Cher come from this interview.
244 “It’s a duty”: Elvis Presley, as quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
244 “Elvis cried in my lap”: Barbara Pittman, quoted in Clayton, Rose, and Heard, Dick, Elvis Up Close.
244 “They could not believe”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
245 “That whole Christmas”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
245 “It was a fun time”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
245 “As kids”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
246 “Elvis came over”: June Wilkinson in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
246 “He was always asking a lot of questions”: Carolyn Jones, quoted in “El’s Leading Ladies,” by Gerry McLafferty, Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 83, 2009.
247 “It was Elvis”: Dolores Hart, interviewed by Trevor Cajiao, “Young Dreams” in Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 62, 2003.
247 “like a young animal”: Dolores Hart, quoted in Schroer, Andreas, Private Presley.
247 “Elvis is a young man”: Dolores Hart, interviewed by Trevor Cajiao, “Young Dreams,” in Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 62, 2003.
247 “There were some horses around”: Ibid.
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249 “a chartreuse jacket”: Jimmie Rodgers Snow, quoted in “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
249 “I told him”: Jimmie Rodgers Snow to author, 2003.
250 “I just remember”: Alan Fortas to author, 1990.
250 “We was sittin’ ”: Annie Presley, quoted in Whitmer, Peter O., The Inner Elvis.
251 “The biggest majority”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
251 “I can’t see myself”: Lamar Fike quoting Gladys Presley in Nash, Alanna, with Smith, Billy, Lacker, Marty, and Fike, Lamar, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.
252 “Congratulations!”: Major Elbert Turner, quoted in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
252 “My heart was being torn away”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
253 “Good-bye, you long black son of a bitch”: Life magazine, February 10, 1995.
253 “Let us see him”: Mansfield, Rex, and Mansfield, Elisabeth, with Terrill, Marshall, and Terrill, Zoe. Sergeant Presley: Our Untold Story of Elvis’ Missing Years.
253 “Where’s your hound dog?”: “Viva Fort Hood,” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, December 2000.
254 “the girls seemed to know”: Ibid.
254 “We found him”: Ibid.
254 “We had to have guards