From Here to the Great Unknown

Lisa was 17 when she met Danny Keough, a 21-year-old bass player from Oregon. He was “cool” and “rugged,” but Lisa didn’t consider him “boyfriend material.” Her disinterest, however, put Danny on “a mission” to date Lisa.

Riley describes her father as possessing an “incredible charisma.” He first noticed Lisa crossing the Celebrity Centre parking lot and immediately noticed her “attitude.” He had no idea she was Elvis’s daughter, and the fact mattered little to him. Like Lisa, fame wasn’t important to Danny, and he admired Lisa for her “intensity” and “unobtainable qualities.”

When Danny and Lisa began dating, Lisa “was trying to turn [her] life around,” stepping away from drugs and looking for something “bigger” and more serious (106). She was attracted to Danny’s “alpha male” qualities, which reminded her of her father. Their relationship initially lasted four months—an uncharacteristically long time for both of them. However, Lisa worried about Danny’s “wandering eye” and broke up with him when he developed a crush on “some Italian girl.” She still loved him, though, and remained “obsessed with him” for two years. She dated “uninteresting time-passers,” and occasionally, she and Danny would run into one another at parties.