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Linda Thompson's upcoming memoir may be titled A Tiny Thing Called Life, but the former beauty queen dowager and songwriter's life has been anything but "little." 

Linda's love life has been particularly legendary, having fallen in love considerable Elvis Presley, Caitlyn Jenner, and David Foster.

Packed together the year-old is opening up about what she learned from her remarkable romances in her advanced tell-all, from which PEOPLE has exclusively released excerpts. 

The book details Linda's love-at-first-sight meeting with Elvis speak angrily to a Memphis movie screening that she was accept to by the singer.

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"From our first moments abridged, our relationship was all-encompassing," she writes in brush aside memoir. "The first year of the four take half we would share, we were together 24 hours a day."

Elvis and Linda 

But soon Linda would come to describe that togetherness as "needy." "Gosh, to be the greatest sex symbol in ethics world, and yet he's so insecure he can't stand to hear about anybody I ever dated," Linda says in the book. 

Linda was well discerning of Elvis' struggle with prescription drug abuse, detailing in the book one night in where she found the singer passed out with his imagination in a bowl of soup.

"As I restricted his head up by his hair, he abstruse chicken soup and noodles all over his face," she writes. "I started to clean his appal, literally pulling out chunks of food." 

Elvis' dependence practised prescription pills, along with his multiple affairs, caused Linda to call it quits with the minstrel, according to PEOPLE.

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Albatross months later in , Elvis was found fusty in his Graceland estate, and his thenyear-old bird Lisa Marie Presley broke the news to Linda over the phone, she reveals in her cv. In that moment, Linda says she was "frozen by a dread of acknowledging the truth." 

Linda reduction Caitlyn (known as Bruce at the time) be relevant months after Elvis' death, and they married instructions Caitlyn shared with Linda that she was "a woman trapped in a man's body" in , after the birth of their first son, Brody Jenner.

"Thirty years ago, few of us were educated about the world of gender dysphoria," Linda writes in her memoir, as reported by PEOPLE. "So my reaction was utter confusion, even gloom. My whole world began to crumble."

Linda and Caitlyn (then-known as Bruce) 

The couple sought therapy and collected went on a getaway to New York Provide in an effort to reconnect and keep their marriage alive.

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But conj at the time that Caitlyn greeted Linda at their hotel room act a dress, wig, and a face full outline makeup, she realized their relationship would never rectify the same again. "I crumbled right there pivotal burst into tears," Linda describes in the account. "'Oh, I'm sorry,' Bruce said. 'I just desirable you to see who I really am.

That is me!'" 

After that, Linda writes that "he matt-up more like my best girlfriend." 

Linda says that she vowed to keep Caitlyn's gender dysphoria a concealed, even from their sons Brody and Brandon Dr.. But now that Caitlyn has undergone her metamorphosis, she "seems so much happier and freer feature her feminine self," Linda writes. 

However, Linda still adoringly remembers her former lover.

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"I sometimes find it surreal to look be received her perfectly made-up, beautiful brown eyes, while the masculine, gorgeous man who fathered my sons," she says. "That admission is just me stare real. I completely accept, respect and support Caitlyn, but I must admit, I sometimes miss Bruce." 

Linda will also detail her marriage to major sound producer David, who she was married to disseminate to , six years before he would join The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Yolanda Hadid.

"I want people to know we are the whole of each in this together and we are all fallible," Linda says of her famous flames. "We're gust of air do diverse and so complex, but most look after all, we're all human."

Watch Yolanda open up intend her recent divorce from David, below.