On January 24, 1954, Dixie noticed Elvis at a church function and making sure he overhears, she began making plans with a girlfriend to go roller-skating the following Saturday night.
'I thought he was the most gorgeous thing I'd ever seen. He was a very shy person, but when he started singing he put so much into putting the music across that he kind of lost himself. He threw himself into it completely,' she says.
The following Saturday, Elvis went to the Rollerdome, where he 'bumped' into Dixie, speaking to her for the first time. At the end of the night he drives her home in his 1941 Lincoln.
On February 16, barely two weeks after their first meeting, Elvis brought Dixie home to meet his parents.
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