Patti Parry

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Patti Parry met Elvis Presley when she was 17, and it was just as you might imagine it. The year was 1960 and it was a sunny day in
California. She and her girlfriend were driving down Santa Monica Boulevard in an old Buick on their way to a fraternity party and
they spotted a fancy black Rolls Royce.

It?s Elvis, they realized, and Parry pretended not to recognize him.

?You look familiar. Do I know you from somewhere?? she coyly asked.

Pretty soon, she was living with Elvis ? not as a girlfriend but as a member of the Memphis Mafia. She was a little sister to the men
who hung in a tight circle around Elvis and she gave up her youth and a chance at romance so she could hang with The King.

?Our personalities just bonded,? said Parry, who will attend the Elvis Explosion Sept. 7-9 at the La Crosse Center.

?He was gorgeous, he was 25,? but Parry knew she was not meant for a romance with Elvis. ?So he adopted me. I didn?t leave for 17
years. I gave up my life to Elvis.?

Her parents weren?t happy. She stopped dating, gave up life as she knew it, and travelled with Elvis and the gang. And because of
that, she said, she never had children. ?Where he went, I went. I have no children because I gave up my life for him. Where he
went, I followed.?

Maybe you had to know Elvis to understand. But 30 years after his death, Parry said she still misses him. She?s almost 65 and has
just retired from her work as a hair dresser. And it?s only recently that she?s gotten on the Elvis circuit to talk about her time spent
with Elvis.

Parry said Elvis was probably attracted to her honesty and the sense of family she gave him. ?I told him the truth, and he loved me
for that. I looked after him. He trusted me. Those guys, they adopted me.?

She enjoys the tribute shows, she said, because they keep Elvis? memory alive. ?They have wonderful, wonderful tribute artists. I do
not have any problem with tribute artists. They love him and they honour him.?

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