“I always loved you. You never got out of my heart,” 97-year-old KT Robbins told his sweetheart during an emotional reunion, 75 years after their first meeting. In 1944, a dashing 24-year-old American soldier fell for the then-18-year-old French beauty Jeannine Ganaye while stationed in her hometown of Briey in the northeast of France.
Robbins had been looking for someone to wash his clothes. Ganaye’s mother obliged, and the lovebirds met for the very first time. Intense feelings blossomed, but Robbins was summoned to the Eastern Front just two months later and left his love, with nothing but a photograph to recall their magical time together.
