For Father’s Day:

Photo by Alfred Wertheimer, 1956

Because when you become a father, you never know how it’ll all turn out.

Vernon looks like an anvil dropped on him from the sky, an anvil in the shape of his famous son.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollywood Photo Archive/Mediapunch/Shutterstock (10195161a)
Elivs Presley
Elvis Presley Archive 1973

Lisa Marie recalled the only time her dad ever spanked her.

She misbehaved, and he told her to stop. Because she was 5 or 6, she kept doing whatever it was and he gave her a light spank on the tush. She probably cried a little bit and then bounced back and rode around on her tricycle. Whatever. Moment forgotten. A blip in her day.

Much later that night – she said it had to have been 2, 3 in the morning, Elvis woke her up, all emotional, and told her how sorry he was and he’d never do it again.

He had been sitting around for HOURS worrying about what he had done.

 
 
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