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March 24, 1958: Presley stands with a group of young men at an induction center in Memphis, raising their right hands as they are sworn into the United States Army. He is Private #53310761. |
Presley in a classroom while in the Army. |
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MEETING PRISCILLA IN GERMANY
He came in , turned on the radio , and then sat down on his bed . I hardly looked at him , petrified of what he might expect. I imagined him grabbing me , throwing me down on the bed , and making love to me .“Why don’t you come over here and sit next to me?”I was reluctant, but he assured me that I had nothing to be afraid of.
“ I really like you Priscilla. You’re refreshing. It’s nice to talk to someone from back home . I miss that . It gets a little lonely here . “
I sat next to him , saying nothing , but I was touched by his vulnerable , boyish quality. He went on to say that our relationship was going to be important to him and that he needed me . It was October and he was scheduled to return to the States in six months. He knew a lot of girls , he said , and many had come to visit as I had , but I was the first girl whom he felt a real closeness .
I cuddled into his arms , certain he would not move too fast.He held me closely…
My heart went out to Elvis that night as he confided his problems and worries . He was a world-famous entertainer, a great star , and yet a terrible lonely man .
Again our visit seemed to end too soon.
He kissed me goodbye, my first real kiss .
I had never experienced such a mixture of affection and desire . I was speechless but closely tied to the reality of where I was-locked in his arms , my mouth against his . Aware of my response-and my youth-he broke away first , saying ,
“We have plenty of time, Little One.
She believes the homesick rock star saw her as a confidant who was wiser than her years. “Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother—which he never ever got over,” she said during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in September. “And I was the person who really, really sat there to listen and to comfort him. That was really our connection.”
In Elvis and Me, Priscilla writes that they did engage in what she refers to as “intimate circumstances” throughout their seven year relationship, but did not have sexual intercourse until their wedding day in 1976 when she was 21. Priscilla swears that it was Elvis who didn’t want to have sex until they were man and wife. “People think that was the attraction, it was sex. Not at all,” she said during a press conference earlier this year at the Venice Film Festival. “I never had sex with him [when I was underage]. He was very kind, very soft, very loving. But he also respected the fact I was only 14-years-old.”In her memoir, Priscilla says that Elvis was more nervous than she was to finally consummate their relationship. “After all, Elvis had protected me and saved me for so long,” she writes. “He was now understandably hesitant about fulfilling all his promises about how very good this moment was going to be.” While she had never been interested in waiting to have sex, she admits that it was worth the wait. “As old-fashioned as it might sound, we were now one,” she writes of their first time. “It was special. He made it special, like he did with anything he took pride in.”
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