Dreamin About Elvis: A love lost

This text provides excerpts from a novel titled Dreamin’ about Elvis, detailing the narrator’s mother's secret history with Elvis Presley in the mid-1950s. The story chronicles how Velvia Gwendolyn Creamer (known as Kitty), a young country girl from Bossier City, Louisiana, meets a nineteen-year-old Elvis just as his career begins with the Louisiana Hayride. Their initial attraction quickly blossoms into a brief but passionate love affair, cemented by Elvis signing a year-long contract to play weekly in Shreveport, offering Kitty a temporary anchor to the rising star. Ultimately, Elvis's destiny toward worldwide fame with RCA Records, coupled with his mother's interference, forces an end to their relationship, leaving Kitty to live a quiet life defined by the heartbreak and sacred memory of her time with him, a secret she holds until her death. The narrative is framed by the perspective of Velvia’s son, Christopher, who shares this history and a final epilogue from Elvis's lonely perspective years later, reflecting on the love he sacrificed for his crown.