With a wry roll of her eyes, Linda Thompson concedes that she ‘sure knows how to pick men’. She lost her virginity to Elvis Presley — the memory of his kiss remains palpable, even 45 years after his death — and mothered him through the excesses of his addiction.Elvis, arguably once the world’s most desirable man, was charming and monstrous by turns. He and Linda, an actress and acclaimed songwriter, were together for almost five years. But she yearned for kids, normality; an end to the see-sawing emotions of his final turbulent years.You might imagine she would find all she had coveted in her next relationship, with Olympic gold-winning decathlete . A man of god-like physical perfection, dubbed Mr America, he and Linda married in 1981 and had two children. But then, four years later, he confided that he wanted to transition.
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