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EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY ELVIS TO WANDA JUNE HILL. IT WAS DATED AUGUST 3, 1977. SHE RECEIVED IT ON AUGUST THE 15TH, THE DAY BEFORE HIS DEATH:

You remember the first time I talked with you. I can recall thinking how nice it was to talk to someone who sounded like I used to sound and that you were sweet and innocent and nervous. I thought then how much I was going to enjoy knowing you and your family. I felt this ugly thing called jealousy because of your child when I saw her. I wanted her for my own, just because she was so loving and I wanted that loving for myself. Listening to you talk about your family life and your husband made me want that kind of relationship too. I never met many married people in California that were happy in marriage until I met you and then some of your friends. I guess it is true about the people you run with influencing your life. Mine has had its bad influences all the way. But I wanted to write to you and tell you that I have enjoyed knowing you and your friends this past year and a half most of all. I have never regretted meeting any of them and I have not one time wished that I did not have you for a friend. I could and feel I will be able to trust and enjoy an open relationship with you and with many of the people that befriend you and your family. I think that is a blessing from heaven and I treasure it.

“Remember when you came to the lot at M.G.M. in the spring of 1963 and I asked you to have lunch with me? I knew then I could trust you and that you would not do anything funny in there with me. I wanted to be able to just relax and with you I could. I was supposed to have lunch with another girl on the set that day and then you came up and I told her another time but she and I weren't just going to eat lunch, in fact I was skipping lunch but then you were so nice and sweet and cute and I decided to spend it with you instead. You didn't even know that other girl was giving you the evil eye the rest of the day and she damn near tripped you a couple of times and you didn't even know! I'll bet you never even noticed when she chopped at you do you? In fact I'll bet you don't even remember it. That was the kind of girl you used to be, trusting and awful sweet. I liked you from the first because you weren't like her. I hope that you don't change as you grow older and more successful. I want to tell you that life is nothing without trust and love and good friends. It is nothing without family and loved ones. And you can not replace them once they are gone. I know. Believe me. Love them and take care of them and never regret the things required of you by them. For that is what life is about. Loving and caring.
Love, Elvis P.

“P.S. If I have done anything to harm or hurt you over the past few years please forgive me for it. I know you have worried about me and spent a lot of time trying to help me, and it did. I would like you to remember me and to help others to do the same. But I don't have the right to ask for a thing. So I'll just hint real loudly, alright?”

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