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In her book, Priscilla describes how her father reluctantly allowed her to live in [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. The initial arrangement was that she live with Vernon Presley and his second wife and attend a Memphis school. She wrote that she then moved into Graceland bit by bit and at age seventeen she and Elvis were sleeping together every night. She says Presley was a very passionate man. However, because of attitudes at the time, strongly reinforced by his [[Pentecostal]] upbringing, he told her that [[virginity]] was a scared thing to him. Presley's generation still had a [[double standard]] that cheered men for their sexual prowess with women but insisted a girl should remain a virgin until married and if she did not, she was labeled a [[slut]]. He told her that they had to wait until they were married before having intercourse (p.130) but they could do "other things." On that same page she writes that "we had a strong connection, much of it sexual. The two of us created some exciting and wild times."
She tells of the presence of [[prescription drugs]] from the first time she visited Elvis Presley in America. He took [[
Beaulieu Presley recounts (p.158) that Elvis liked old movie classics that revolved around family or the struggle to survive in the world such as ''[[Les Miserables]]'', ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'', ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]'', ''[[Mr. Skeffington]]'', ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'', ''[[Letter from an Unknown Woman]]'' and his favorite, ''[[The Way of All Flesh (movie)|The Way of All Flesh]]'', a story about a self-sacrificing father and his wife and children.
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Unfortunately, the very next line of Beaulieu's book says that after the Ann-Margret ordeal she soon suspected there were other women. She then started traveling everywhere with him but says she still would "get crazed with worry." Beaulieu said in the book that she was afraid that the one moment she would be away from him, would be the moment when another woman could slip in. Sometimes, she says, when she heard a rumor about one of the starlets, she would do things like suggest coming to the movie set but he would refuse. In other instances she recites how her insecurities would see her imitate the other woman's appearance, changing her clothes, hairstyle and makeup to hopefully please him. If she forcefully challenged Presley on her suspicions, he would threaten to send her home to her parents. One such confrontation led to a screaming match where he told her to get out. Bags packed, chauffeur ready to take her to the airport, he changed his mind at the last minute and she willingly stayed. Priscilla Beaulieu wrote that it was years later before she realized his tactics were part of a need to control her. This was all before they were married, but in her [[2005 in film|2005]] made for television documentary titled ''[[Elvis by the Presleys]]'', she admitted he had affairs with other women during their marriage.
In his seach for a "higher state of consciousness," Presley became fascinated with the [[occult]] and [[Metaphysics|metaphysical phenomena]]. Priscilla relates how during his spiritual quest everyone around them saw Presley's personality change dramatically from vibrant and playful to being passive and introverted. When this phase of his life passed, she and Elvis had a bonfire and burned the stacks of magazines and books he had accumulated on the subject. Beaulieu writes that during this time they had tried [[marijuana]] but didn't like it because it made them ravenously hungry and extra pounds was the unwanted result. Although Presley abhorred street drugs, Beaulieu tells how they used [[LSD]] and while they both thought it had been an "extraordinary experience," they were afraid of it and experimented that one time only.
The book was published by [[G.P. Putnam's Sons]], [[New York City|New York]]. (ISBN 0-399-12984-7). In 1988, it was made into a movie for television.
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