Linda Thompson

has never stopped loving Elvis, nearly 30 years after he died (which is unreal in itself):

"There are just a few times in your life when you meet someone that you think is a kindred spirit," she said in a recent telephone interview from her home in California. "We both grew up in Memphis with the same religious fervor, the same cuisine, the same socioeconomic group, the same humidity. Unless you've grown up in that vicinity you don't really understand what being a Southerner is all about," says Thompson, who would become an actress, songwriter and, eventually, wife to Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, then Hollywood mega-music producer David Foster.

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Thompson says she may write a book for next year's 30th anniversary of Elvis' death. "Enough time has passed."

Besides, Thompson says she rarely even talked about Elvis for the last 20 years because her estranged husband, music producer David Foster, "was very jealous of Elvis. He didn't even want any mention of Elvis." Jenner, she says, "was far less insecure than David about it. ... He was in athletics, and I don't feel like he felt Elvis could have won the decathlon."