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- About Me:
- I grew up being a "daddy's girl" literally since he raised me from the time I was 5 until I was 18. At first we lived in town; we moved out to the farm lands when I was older, where I learned to love animals of all types, especially horses. My aunt took me to Idaho to visit her parents one summer and I learned to ride on a big Perch eon stallion who was a farm horse and pulled heavy equipment used in digging irrigation ditches on their ranch. After high school, I went to work in Tulsa and met my husband, Jimmie. We came to Ca. with our new daughter and everything we owned packed inside a 1960 Chevrolet; Jimmie got work, we found a little house to rent very near the beach, just 27 miles from the Los Angeles area and Hollywood; I spent a lot of time at the beach with our little girl, trying to fill the time Jimmie was working because I didn't know anyone else having left home, friends and family to go with him to "golden California". I was lonely and "lost" in a strange land; but that soon changed. Big time!
One early afternoon while waiting for clothes to dry at the laundry mat I met a lovely young woman who told me she was an actress and was working on a film with Elvis Presley. Of course I didn't believe it, but she asked me to come by her apartment,her son and my daughter could play and we'd have lunch; she had recently moved from L.A. for her son's health, didn't know anyone either and said she was expecting a call from Elvis regarding the film schedule. She told me I could listen on her other phone; maybe he'd say hello to me, so I said okay even though I believed he was a "child of the devil" as I had been taught---however,
my husband loved him. Elvis called, I listened, he said hello, talked for several minutes and to this day, I can't remember how I drove home or how I ended up miles from our house sitting in my little MG roadster with my little girl in my sister-in-law's driveway! Did Elvis make an "impression on me"- I'd say so! Several months later and a couple of other conversations with Elvis at my actress friend's apartment, I got to meet him personally, spend some time talking face to face on the set of Kissin' Cousins and for some reason he decided he wanted to be friends with us. Years later when I told him how I had "blanked out" after our first conversation, he listened then very casually said, "Yeah...may be ya otta quit smokin' that stuff, really." He remained pretty much the same nice, friendly and funny guy from the first conversation to the last in 77;he loved people and wasn't afraid to show it, to step up and offer help, to hold out a hand to strangers and friends alike, young or old, poor or wealthy, it didn't matter to Elvis. Everyone has their story, he said; you never know where you will find someone who can teach you just what you need to know. ELC - Candlelight is the place to find them.
- My Spiritual Path and Elvis' influence upon it:
- Elvis entered my life at a time when I was in a dark place from which I could not escape, and he brought a light that gave warmth and understanding like none I had experienced in my twenty-three years of life. Knowing him was a joy, being able to be in his presence was entertaining, but the most important aspect of knowing him was that I awakened inwardly, spiritually, and in doing so became a new person. One who can see others for what they are capable of being, and thusly, I am less judgmental and more patient.
To me Elvis Presley was a “savior”. One who restored my faith in God’s love, and one who taught me that though life is to be treasured, death would be nothing to fear. Jesus, the Christ taught love - Elvis Presley was, and his memory still is, that love in this physical world.
My pages on ELC (website below) can be found by clicking on "Wanda June Hill Remembers Elvis."
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Art'tic Foxx, Ansata Arabian /Ebony's Double Tenn. Walker. dark eyes, pure white. Related to Elvis' T. Walker. Free style/music Dressage,show,parade,trick and trail trained, 15.2 hands, gold hooves, tail was 11 1/2 feet long when last shown, 2004, at age 7. He took First Place at all events, not because he was perfect-but because he is rare, unique, with just one foal like him born in over 100,000 foals -and always these rare horses are unexpected delights! Total strangers in awe of his striking whiteness would say, "He's the Elvis of the horse world!"
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How are you?I trust this finds you in the best of health!
I wish to extend to you, my personal invitation to join my new group....Elvis'Legacy...In The Spirit Of Elvis...
It would be an honor to have you there...and recount some of your wonderful memories of Elvis.
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Was wondering and have meaning to ask you if you know if Elvis had a chance to see any of the footage of his last concert? I know he was gravely ill but still trying to deal with itand I know the book the judases wrote was devistating and all the public and Lisa would hear about all of it,but thought maybe seeing some of that maybe could have been another blow. I know he knew how bad he looked but probably not how much .Don't know why but that has been on my mind since 77.. Hopw all is well with you,much love,Gayle
How are you doing? Just wanted to say hi! Hope you had a nice birthday! I sent you a birthday did you get it! It was a few weeks ago I hope you got it ok! Hope all is good with you all! You take Care I hope you have a great and wonderful day and rest of the week and weekend!
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Fran
Take care, love Marian
She used HIS innocence against him in a cunning and devious way, that is the truth. And he gave her the benefit of the doubt, because he saw in her the innocence of his mom, I believe, since he missed his mom so much and he had told her all about her the whole time they were in Germany.
I believe she took on that persona to win him and trap him to get what she wanted from him. That is my take, and everything I hear and read- even those things from her, the way she says things - and doesn't say some things - backs it up.
SO sad, Wanda. I had read that Priscilla said she didn't want to wreck her figure by having more kids and for a long time when pregnant with Lisa, she even went galloping on her horse into fairly far along in her pregnancy, until she was thrown off and asked not to ride anymore..She also would not eat except a little bit each day, so she only gained about 10 to 12 pounds the entire pregnancy. I read where even the cooks at Graceland worried about how she wouldn't eat. They were shocked that her top priority was that she didn't want her figure to change, not that she wanted to provide proper nourishment for the life inside her. Some said it was almost like she was trying to rid herself of the whole process. Then she told Elvis is it written that "I'd never have another child with YOU!" like he caused her to feel bad about her body during her pregnancy. I highly doubt that one. He was too sensitive in so many other areas to be a cold person in this one - especially on how proud he was of having a child and how many children he had wanted.
When you see how she dumped Lisa Marie off to boarding schools and left her alone with her boyfriends a lot after Elvis died, and how Lisa rebelled in her teens, you can see she really didn't care all too much and that Lisa at least could see it then.
Seems they have reconciled, though, now. Mother again has an interest again to ensure that Elvis' daughter thinks she's the greatest....
Now you can see quite clearly that I do not think much of Priscilla!
But what you wrote is powerful...and he did say a lot already when he spoke in concert about Priscilla, that it was his fault. He took full blame, poor man. And she fully let him.
But Karma is funny that way. Elvis never exacted any kind of retribution toward her - he in fact heaped it on himself... but even so, I can see she got a little of her own medicine dished back at her during her Dancing With The Stars, and her plastic surgery fiasco came out. Plus people saw her in a new light - and not the light I think she was expecting to be see in.
BTW, I tried to delete this page, but since this is your page, I cannot do it. Perhaps Maia can delete it for you?
Also if you want to send something privately, you can always write me with something then tell me to delete, by sending to my e mail,
info@quillcommunications.com or ssnyder@bellsouth.net
as both addresses mail to the same place, and I will get off the server/delete anything you do not want kept on line.
Blessings, Sonya
I had the other version saved that you wrote - I can send it to you too if you like, just let me know- as I was going to respond more to it and then this one came up -
You went into more detail here - I like this version the best. I would love to read more of some things you mentioned here like about the four children he thought he'd have and why, and did he think he could have that family waiting at home, and still tour so much - or was this what he wanted if he decided to do Gospel concerts only? It might just have worked out for him all the way around, when you think about it, if he had made that Gospel choice.
I agree with you, Wanda, Elvis wasn't the type of quit, to end his life, to give up. He was a fighter, had high ideals, dreamed big and had a huge faith in God.
The Bible says "Wait on the Lord and He will renew Your Strength" and Elvis did wait on Him, and God did minister to Elvis to keep him going till his time was due.
But he was sad and it was hard, like it had been for Lincoln, too. He never gave up either but it didn't mean he was happy all the time, living in such a vice grip of tension and stress both inside and out.
Elvis unwillingness to break the patterns of how to treat authority and how to look at the world that his mom set in his life made him unwilling or too stressed to get rid of people who actually were diabolically using him in every way, and through that desire to control the golden goose for their uses, did him harm, like the Colonel and his cronies around him.
But I put myself in his shoes to see if I would have been able and I would not have done much better if I had had no one I could turn to and who would agree with my dream, and back my wild escape decision to go another route in my life.
He needed to have Diskin from the 68 Special, become his manager, or at least a key adviser, to help him grow and get him a new manager. He needed a good independent financial, litigation and contract Lawyer who didn't like the Colonel, He needed some moral trusted Chinese doctors who could help him through acupuncture to teach him how to calm his body and sooth the irritations, he needed to be surrounded with people who would tell him "no" when he was pushing the boundaries to see who cared, but who would also say 'yes" when where he wanted to go next was toward following his intuition and into his dreams.
He had no one like this and if I did not have anyone who cared enough to stand there with me even to fulfill what others thought was a wacky idea, it would have been hard to leave such success and go for broke in a totally new direction.
One great quote, on this, is " A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not where ships are built to stay."
Yet they locked him in his rooms with drugs or keys or guards and they crushed his spirit to soar. An eagle put in a cage will wither, as will any free animal. A man denied the support to follow his dreams while being yanked back to status quo, will also give up his dreams, especially after more than a decade of such mental abuse.
Like I said, if he would have let me - and trusted me to do so - that is key, I would have come and gotten you and we could have really cleaned house for Elvis, and then, backed his dreams.
Wish we could time travel!
Love, Sonya
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