Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[Rainbow Light]

He said, sometimes he just felt that he "had to touch them".

I guess he sensed when he needed to touch people in particular if he felt they needed another human being's comfort, caring touch, to know someone's there for them, maybe?

[Elvis'SweetSweetSpirit]

He was always there for anyone who ever needed him and still is always here whenever we need him!

Elvis Always And Forever And Ever!

Fran

[Rainbow Light]

[vixen]

Wow, he was really something. I am enjoying hearing all these special things about him. Not many people know this side of him and it is so refreshing to get the details that really count. It is also so nice to get a glimpse of the inner person that was Elvis.

I just love the way he speaks about Cilla, you can just see how he adores her. I know he says that he is glad she got involved in the karate because it at least took her mind off of what he was up to, maybe her being insecure and worried about him and all the girls really made things difficult for them.....

Whenever I read about him and Cilla I get so very sad as they almost seemed so perfect but the way of life and his life just made it impossible....
Wanda, do you think she and Elvis in the later years kind of disolved a lot of their differences, even if they never got back together again, surely things were said to kind of get closure? Mind you I have read that Cilla did say the things she really needed to say to him. It just seems that he loved her until the day he died, although there were many other woman. Some of the woman that he went out with said that they were never intimate with him but rather just spoke about all sorts of things. Others of course say that they were......

This is is all very fascinating..... Why is that? It has been 30 years and still people so deparately want to know all about these two people and the world that they were part of...

I keep reading how Cilla was no virgin when she got married or involved with Elvis, that she did not really love Elvis and that her relationship with Elvis was a plan that was set up by her and her mother......
People judge her on the fact that she has kept his surname and has become one of the key players at EPE. How can people be so naieve and judge mental. Surely this is not all true. I just do not believe it.

She must get so upset when she hears things like this, but then again I am sure she has had to just ignore all of it....

Wanda, I would love to hear your thoughts on these things i have mentioned.

[Rainbow Light]

Vixen, will take this back to Wanda for you so she can reply as soon as she has the chance, for you!

[Wanda June Hill]

Hi Vixen,

Well, I think that the general public always has loved a good romantic story and if the end isn't good, they like it even more. Maybe it resonates with something in their lives? With Elvis and Priscilla there was the Cinderella theme and they had a perfect look together, then had the beautiful baby girl etc: and Elvis was so handsome during those days-he just became "unreal" looking in many ways...then she was so beautiful too, and so much said and written and so many photographs etc: and all the hooey that went along with being Mr. & Mrs E. Presley etc:...it was everyone's ideal of what a wonderful marriage and great love should be.
I too have heard the stories even before they separated- and how Elvis didn't love her but had to marry her etc because he had "made promises" to her parents and to her. But I believe he did love her, he raised her and she was so much like his kid or sister in many ways too, yet he had theis strong tie with her. He felt that maybe they had been a couple in past lives and that was what he felt for her-that tie to the past. Whatever he loved her very much, but in the end he said he guessed that it wasn't the kind of love he ought to have felt and maybe she couldn't take knowing that or something. He just didn't seem to know exactly what happened between them except that he was too wrapped up in his career to notice her pain and lonliness. He said maybe he could have done better, but it was too late and too little by then.
He said she was a virgin...myabe if he knew or it wasn't so-he meant that he had not been with her in the "biblical" sense. So to him she was...and if he knew differently, he never said a word and I don't think he felt that way or thought it. He said he waited for marriage with her because he wanted it right, he wanted a man of God a real preacher to marry them but of course that didn't happen.
I guess that they represent the great romance of our time-and I don't think he ever got over her entirely, she had been in his life for so long a time, she filled a place that needed filling when his mom died, she loved him and he said took care of him and that he was the one at fault, he didn't take care of things when he should have and so he lost her. He would never say differently. I think he would have loved to have her back in his life in those last two years...I think he was reaching out for her, for something he could hang on to but she wouldn't come back to him again. I think it was just he knew inwardly if not outwardly that his time was close, that it would be his last chance to "fix things" and make it right, but he waited too long and he was gone. Pris said she wished she had known the last time she talked to him, he was calling her late at night, early am just as he did other people, and they were talking alot.
She wished she could have said things to him that he would have loved to know but she didn't and it was too late. I believe she wishes she had gone back to be with him, to be a family as he wanted, but he didn't tell her and she didn't know. I think he knew. I always will. wjh

[Rainbow Light]

Very many thanks for your reply, Wanda!

[MaryInTheMorning]

He said, sometimes he just felt that he "had to touch them".

I guess he sensed when he needed to touch people in particular if he felt they needed another human being's comfort, caring touch, to know someone's there for them, maybe?

Methinks you're right on the money with this my dear angel and I couldn't agree more!!! My thanks to you also dear Wanda for your reply. Very insightful and very well stated too!

[Rainbow Light]

Methinks you're right on the money with this my dear angel and I couldn't agree more!!! My thanks to you also dear Wanda for your reply. Very insightful and very well stated too!

Right on, Mari! So well expressed and said!