Eli Young loved Elvis Presley. He would sing and dance like him in the mirror. When he turned eighteen he moved to Las Vegas. He decided to work the strip as an impersonator.

The first time I met Eli, it was at a bar called The Red Room where we were all drinking together on our way home from school when they pulled up behind us with their car keys out

The next year, when I was working at a restaurant called The Soho Barbershop on Sunset Boulevard (where my friend had worked), we went out for dinner with our friends who were all