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Paul McCartney made his first visit Sunday to the one-time home of the king of rock ’n’ roll in Memphis and left a gift behind. According tothe official Twitter account of the former Beatle, McCartney dropped a personal guitar pick on Elvis Presley’s grave and said, “This is so Elvis can play in heaven.” McCartney, a lifelong Elvis fan, also toured Graceland. He was in Memphis to play a show on the North American leg of his “Out There” tour. The Sunday show at FedExForum marked McCartney’s first visit to the Bluff City in two decades.

Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie revealed she’d had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt died from the diseaseSunday. Debbie Martin died at age 61 at a hospital in Escondido, Calif., near San Diego, said her husband, Ron Martin. Debbie Martin was the younger sister of Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, whose own death from ovarian cancer in 2007 inspired the surgery that Jolie described in a May 14 op-ed in The New York Times. According to her husband, Debbie Martin had the same defective BRCA1 gene that Jolie does, but didn’t know it until after her 2004 cancer diagnosis. “Had we known, we certainly would have done exactly what Angelina did,” Ron Martin said in a phone interview. Debbie Martin’s death was first reported by E! News. Ron Martin said after getting breast cancer, Debbie Martin had her ovaries removed preventively because she was also at very high genetic risk for ovarian cancer, which has killed several women in her family. Jolie, 37, said in her op-ed that her doctors estimated that she had a 50 percent risk of getting ovarian cancer but an 87 percent risk of breast cancer. She had her breasts removed first, reducing her likelihood of breast cancer to 5 percent. She described the three-step surgical process in detail in the oped, “because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience.” The story, a surprise to most save those closest to Jolie, spurred a broad discussion of genetic testing and pre-emptive surgery. A message left with representatives seeking comment from Jolie was not immediately returned.