In November 1885, Daimler’s son Adolph Daimler drove the riding car along a three-kilometer stretch of road between Caanstatt and Untertürkheim and back.

So wrote Betty Comden and Adolph Green over fifty years ago, when they couldn't possibly have realized they were creating a lyric that would some day describe the euro zone.

Photographed shortly after she arrived at a hospital in Thomonde in November, 2007, Adolph, 26, was so diseased and malnourished from AIDS that doctors gave her less than one week to live.