Jim, sorry to keep offering life story parallels, but can’t resist inviting you to read a post on my Tumblr blog which stems from an incident in Prague that may not have been entirely dissimilar to your encounter in Berlin thirty years later. Cheers!
http://9bear-blog.tumblr.com/post/144382172220/in-50-year-old-dreams-i-remember-your-eyes-grey
