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513 “He kissed like a god”: Lipton, Peggy, with Dalton, David, and Dalton, Coco. Breathing Out.
515 “Boss! Boss, snap out of it!”: West, Sonny, and Terrill, Marshall, Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business.
515 “He’d say”: Marty Lacker to author, 1993.
515 “She’s a mama”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
516 “I was so all-consumed with him”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
516 “blew my mind”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
516 “Look at this”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
518 “He was so out of control”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
519 “very sexual”: Ibid.
519 “resting place of the soul”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
519 “It drove me crazy”: Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
519 “it won’t be long until I’m forty”: Bova, Joyce, as told to Nowels, William Conrad, Don’t Ask Forever: My Love Affair with Elvis.
520 “He grabbed me”: Presley, Priscilla, with Harmon, Sandra, Elvis and Me.
520 “Another man has taken my wife”: Lamar Fike, quoting Elvis Presley in Nash, Alanna, with Smith, Billy, Lacker, Marty, and Fike, Lamar, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.
520 “It wasn’t so much”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.
520 “Elvis was very upset”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
520 “he cursed Priscilla and Mike”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
520 “problem”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
520 “lying down on stage”: Joe Moscheo to Beverly Keel for author, 1998.
521 “He loved cuddling and petting”: Anonymous source to author, 2009.
521 “Mr. Kahane”: Jackie Kahane to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
521 “so many flashbulbs”: Joe Guercio to Karen Schoemer, raw interview transcript, 1997.
521 “. . . A Prince from Another Planet”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
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523 “It was like we were never divorced”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in People magazine, December 4, 1978.
524 “There was a real nice spray”: Peggy Selph Cannon, quoted in “Woman with Elvis No Longer a Mystery,” by Michael Lollar, Commercial Appeal, July 17, 2000.
524 “Elvis needed more love”: Linda Thompson to author, 1977.
524 “intensely lonely at heart”: Linda Thompson to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
524 “I thought Elvis was still married”: Linda Thompson to author, 1977.
525 “I said, ‘Well, I’ll come and meet him’ ”: Cybill Shepherd, quoted in TV Guide, April 20, 1996.
525 “The house”: Shepherd, Cybill, with Ball, Aimee Lee, Cybill Disobedience.
525 “can cause”: Cybill Shepherd, “She’s Still Here, Up for Anything,” by Margy Rochlin, New York Times, July 26, 2009.
526 “I don’t think”: Cybill Shepherd, “Shepherd Left Elvis After Late-Night Drugs Offer,” WENN News, August 15, 2009.
526 “He said, ‘Here, take these’ ”: Ibid.
526 “Let’s put it this way”: Cybill Shepherd, quoted in TV Guide, April 20, 1996.
526 “it was just a shuttle”: Anonymous source, quoted in “Love Me Tender,” by Tracy McVeigh, The Observer, August 11, 2002.
526 “The Elvis that I got to know in Memphis”: Cybill Shepherd to Larry King, CNN, 2002.
526 “Elvis looked almost like Liberace”: Raquel Welch to author, 2007.
527 “Once he was onstage”: Robin Rosaaen to author. All Robin Rosaaen quotes come from the author’s interviews in 2007 and 2008. Portions of the Robin Rosaaen material originally appeared in Reader’s Digest, February 2008.
527 “Elvis looked at me”: Larry Geller to author, 2009.
528 “It’s very hard to comprehend”: Elvis Presley, press conference, Las Vegas Hilton, September 4, 1972.
528 “Mr. Katane”: Jackie Kahane, quoting anonymous child to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
528 “he began getting acupuncture”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O.