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495 “I’ve been calling”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Leigh, Barbara, with Terrill, Marshall, The King, McQueen, and the Love Machine: My Secret Hollywood Life with Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, and James Aubrey.
496 “where all his stuff was”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
496 “Elvis wanted”: Ibid.
496 “I’d like you to have this”: Leigh, Barbara, with Terrill, Marshall, The King, McQueen, and the Love Machine: My Secret Hollywood Life with Elvis Presley, Steve McQueen, and James Aubrey.
496 “His mouth was round, full and soft”: Ibid.
497 “He was spontaneous”: Ibid.
497 “He was an old soul”: “Interview with Barbara Leigh,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 15, 2008.
497 “I loved him”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
497 “it never stopped him”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
497 “I understood what he wanted”: Ibid.
497 “It took him”: Ibid.
497 “I loved my little brown Mercedes”: “Interview with Barbara Leigh,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 15, 2008.
497 “had a girl”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
498 “he would be talking”: Sherry Williams, “Elvis’s Secret Love,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 33, 2004.
499 “had on a jumpsuit”: e-mail, Regis Wilson Vaughn to author, 2009.
500 “I’ll bet”: Marty Lacker to author, 1993.
500 “He just had”: “Interview with Barbara Leigh,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 15, 2008.
500 “My TLC”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
501 “There are two reasons”: e-mail, Peter O. Whitmer to author, 2009.
501 “He couldn’t take care of himself”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
502 “Jerry, I’m coming into Los Angeles”: Jerry Schilling quoting Elvis Presley to Jerry Hopkins, from the Jerry Hopkins Collection, Special Collections, the University of Memphis. All Schilling material in this section comes from this interview.
503 “do not consider me”: Elvis Presley, letter to Richard Nixon, December 20, 1970.
504 “My name is Jerry Schilling”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
504 “Elvis always wanted”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
505 “You’re a beautiful woman”: Joyce Bova, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
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506 “Officer, can I help with anything?” Elvis Presley, quoted in Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
507 “He’d put on his uniform”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
508 “I don’t go along”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
508 “his private nature”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
509 “a conversation piece”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
509 “we’d kiss so passionately”: Sherry Williams, “Elvis’s Secret Love,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 33, 2004.
509 “a mistake”: Ann-Margret, with Gold, Todd, Ann-Margret: My Story.
510 “I held his hand”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
510 “I felt her”: Ibid.
511 “I couldn’t understand”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
511 “tremendous in size”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
511 “went ballistic”: Sonny West quoting Elvis Presley in West, Sonny, and Terrill, Marshall, Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business.
512 “he played the tough part”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
512 “a lovely dancer”: e-mail, Sally O’Brien to Jacque Parsley for author, 2009.
512 “nights when he’d come into Lisa’s bedroom”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
512 “I took a lover”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in “No Angel,” by Peter Conrad, The Observer, May 22, 2005.
512 “I saw Mommy and Mike:” Lisa Marie Presley, quoted in Nash, Alanna, with Smith, Billy, Lacker, Marty, and Fike, Lamar, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.
512 “She wanted