speak -- did he ever try to rekindle it? Linda Thompson: No. I wrote him a letter. This was late November, and I wrote him a letter just before Christmas. Larry King: What did you say? Linda Thompson: Just that I have known the pain of too much tenderness. That he would always remain the love of my life, but I never wanted to love that fully and completely without reservation again. Larry King: And he would die the following summer. Linda Thompson: And he died in August. He died eight months after we broke up. Larry King: Where were you when he died? Linda Thompson: I was in Los Angeles at my apartment. Larry King: How did you hear? Linda Thompson: My phone rang, and it was Lisa Marie, who was only nine years old at the time, and she used to call me from time to time because we were very close. As I said, I loved her a lot then. I love her a lot now. And she said, Linda, it's Lisa. I said, I know who you are, little goobernickel. But she had this desperate tone in her voice, and I thought he was playing. I thought maybe she was just out of breath. She said, my daddy's dead. My daddy's dead. And I threw the phone in the air. I just threw the phone away. I said, no, no, he's not. And then I looked at the phone on the ground and I thought, here's