Little Valley of Germania : 9781425946371 : 23 Oct 2006 : He mused as he sat there, as he often did, and his mind took backward flight. They were young then, young man and woman; beyond childhood, but only by the slightest of measure----only by a scant few years. They met so long ago, in a renowned municipality of the Midwest arrayed on the banks of a great river. It was Kansas City. On this evening two young girls were leaving a busily frequented pharmaceutical which housed a popular soda fountain and coffee shop that lured people of their age in droves, the most compelling attractant being a setting of small circular tables where between the hours of six and ten the young crowd gathered to talk and laugh and be with one another. "I'm Jonathan Ashley," he said. "And I'm Katrina Annaheim," she replied. "Who is this girl?" he queried to himself. "Is she Roman, is she Indo-European, or is she Persian?" He had read that young women of these lineages were the most beautiful in the world. S