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Dorothy was a sweet, fine, religious young woman, deeply devoted to the religious aspects of life. She was a very, very good woman. I fell in love with her and we got married in February 1952 when I was fifteen and she was sixteen. Dorothy was also a good-looking girl. Sitting up in the front row of church I was singing "Peace in the Valley" and I looked at her and I thought, "Jesus Christ, that's the woman for me!" Really, it was love at first sight. I just had to be married, y'know, it got back to the sex thing again. Dorothy said, "You can forget that with me 'cause I'll never do that 'til I get married." I said, "Well that ain't no problem." Of course Dorothy's father objected, it broke his heart. She was a virgin, I was a virgin and we didn't know nothing about nothing. I just got it into my mind that I had to get married 'cause I wanted to go to bed with this lady. Sex is not what you think it's gonna be. It all goes together but it has to be right. I don't know what I was expecting, an avalanche or something. It's not that. It's something that's supposed to be sacred and Dorothy wasn't wild enough for ol' Jerry Lee. (Natchez, Mississippi, 1952)
from KILLER! by Jerry Lee Lewis with Charles White (Century, © 1995)
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