Janelle McComb met the Presley family when Elvis was just four years old in Tupelo, Mississippi, and remained a close friend for life. She was a gifted writer—someone Elvis trusted not just with his memories, but with his heart.In 1971, he asked Janelle to write a poem for Lisa Marie’s fourth birthday. She called it The Priceless Gift.A few years later, in 1976, Elvis commissioned her again—this time to write a special Christmas poem for his father, Vernon.And when Elvis passed in 1977, Vernon t