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429 “My happiest memories”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.

429 “ ‘Satnin,’ we’re going to be married”: Presley, Priscilla, with Harmon, Sandra. Elvis and Me.

429 “There was still love there”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.

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431 “he’d put a scarf around his neck”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.

432 “The happiest we ever saw him”: Ray Walker to author, 1977.

432 “You couldn’t read the letter”: Patsy Presley, quoted in Elvis by the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.

432 “Family talk”: Ibid.

433 “How are you going to break it to the guys?” Marty Lacker quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1993.

433 “He started to get very philanthropic”: Larry Geller to author, 1998.

434 “He had a couple of months”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.

435 “He ate out of depression”: Jerry Schilling to Jerry Hopkins, the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis.

435 “He went above and beyond”: Barbara Klein Bauer to Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 64, 2009.

436 “He was healthy then”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.

436 “We will have”: Letter, Colonel Tom Parker to Marty Lacker, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.

436 “Oh, man”: Larry Geller quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1998. The dialogue that follows is based on his account.

437 “a couple of men in suits”: Larry Geller to author, 1998.

437 “Goddamn you guys!” Marty Lacker quoting Colonel Tom Parker to author, 1994.

437 “Here’s the way it is”: This dialogue is based on what Marty Lacker told the author, 1994.

438 “It was like taking my arm off”: Larry Geller to author, 1998.

438 “I threw in maybe two or three books”: Larry Geller quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1998.

439 “There were many times”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.

439 “He was a private person”: Shelley Fabares, Elvis International Forum magazine, August 1992.

439 “He went after her”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.

440 “He’s a clean-cut”: Sam Katzman, quoted in Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.

440 “was absolutely petrified”: Judge David Zenoff, Life magazine, February 10, 1995.

440 “Our little girl”: Paul Beaulieu, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.

441 “as we raced”: Presley, Priscilla, with Harmon, Sandra, Elvis and Me.

441 “I was making a motorcycle movie”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.

441 “just doing what he always tried to do”: “Interview with Charlie Hodge,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, April 9, 2005.

441 “We should”: Joe Esposito to Peter Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.

441 “Well, somebody finally caught him”: Kay Wheeler, e-mail to author, 2009.

442 “Our eyes met”: Ann-Margret with Gold, Todd, Ann-Margret: My Story.

442 “This is the greatest thing”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.

442 “Elvis was always talking”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in “No Angel,” by Peter Conrad, The Observer, May 22, 2005.

443 “Did you come yet?” Nancy Sinatra quoting Elvis Presley in Goldman, Albert, Elvis.

443 “He just got very quiet”: Ibid.

444 “He just didn’t feel comfortable”: Joe Esposito to author, 2009.

444 “I guess he had a Madonna complex”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in “No Angel,” by Peter Conrad, The Observer, May 22, 2005.

444 “Somehow, after a false start”: Schilling, Jerry, with Crisafulli, Chuck, Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley.

444 “He never seemed”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.

445 “I said fine”: Priscilla