Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [383]
304 “the sort of little girl”: Suzanne Finstad to author, 2009.
304 “She was kinda like a little honeypot”: Mary Clements, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
305 “My father was very strict”: Priscilla Presley, “An Interview with Priscilla,” by Bill E. Burk, Elvis World magazine, no. 23, based on the RUR show on Veronica TV in Amsterdam, Holland, probably 1992.
305 “a great guy, a fun guy”: Colonel Eugene Desaulniers to author, 2009. All Colonel Eugene Desaulniers quotes come from this interview.
305 “He said Priscilla said”: e-mail, Marty Lacker to author, 2009.
306 “I had this unbelievable feeling”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
307 “That’s just an incredible kind of displacement”: Suzanne Finstad to author, 2009.
307 “It was like kissing a table”: Currie Grant, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
308 “It actually started”: Ibid.
308 “May God strike me dead”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
310 “He just played with her”: Currie Grant, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
310 “I felt more comfortable”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
310 “Don’t play coy with me!”: Currie Grant, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
310 “not necessarily for sex”: Joe Esposito to author, 2009.
311 “I was terrified”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
311 “I don’t think he was prepared”: Priscilla Presley, “An Interview with Priscilla,” by Bill E. Burk, Elvis World magazine, no. 23, based on the RUR show on Veronica TV in Amsterdam, Holland, probably 1992.
311 “I enjoyed speaking”: Paul Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
312 “When we met Elvis”: Ann Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
312 “Elvis could talk anyone”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
312 “It was not a question”: Currie Grant, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
312 “to consummate our love”: Presley, Priscilla, with Harmon, Sandra, Elvis and Me.
312 “She’s a beautiful girl”: Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena, Good Rockin’ Tonight.
313 “I was leading two lives”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
313 “My Dearest Darling ‘Little’ ”: Elvis Presley letter to Anita Wood, postmarked November 6, 1959, reproduced in Osborne, Jerry, Elvis Word for Word.
315 “he assured me”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
315 “Anita was a known entity”: e-mail, Peter O. Whitmer to author, 2009.
315 “It’s upstairs on the table”: Unknown girl, quoted in Schroer, Andreas, Private Presley.
315 “when he leaned over”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
316 “had pores big enough to hide a tank in”: Lamar Fike to author, 1993.
316 “We just played all night and slept during the day”: Joe Esposito to author, 2009.
316 “Well, I’ll tell you”: Elvis Presley to Johnny Paris, Armed Forces Radio, March 1, 1960.
316 “He stayed in that dressing room”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
316 “It gave him permission”: Ibid.
317 “They thought I couldn’t take it”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
317 “It was a time of grief for me”: Hill, Wanda June, We Remember Elvis.
317 “cheerfulness and drive”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
317 “a box of twelve bottles”: Joe Esposito to Peter Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
318 “We swore undying fidelity”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
318 “Little One”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
318 “He was in love with Priscilla”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
318 “You think my father”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Finstad, Suzanne, Child Bride.
319 “in a dream world”: Priscilla