Dearest Reader,

My references to works of art, literature, music, and philosophy as well as to quotations from historical personalities are accurate. Similarly, my references to castles, palaces, monuments, museums, streets, and town squares are factual. I hope you will someday be able to visit these aesthetic marvels of cultural and historical importance.

If, in reading this tale, I inspire the slightest spark of interest in your experiencing the greater freedoms afforded by my vision of AmEuropa or your seeing any of the marvels, eating any of the foods, or reading any of the works by or about the historical personalities of whom I wrote, then I will have gratefully succeeded in my literary effort.

For your reading of the ensuing adventures of Beck and Bailey and XXX - some of which, I must avow, have been my own - I am obliged and send you a thousand warmhearted thanks.

May the freedoms in AmEuropa one day be yours!

I remain, with sincere gratitude, yours faithfully,

Kent M. Chater

Long live AmEuropa!