'You never got out of my heart': American veteran, 97, and French woman, 92, who fell in love when h

[Right_in_Virginia]

'You never got out of my heart': American veteran, 97, and French woman, 92, who fell in love when he was stationed there during World War II meet again 75 years later in emotional reunion
Daily Mail/UK, Jun 12, 2019

•KT Robbins, now 97, and Jeannine Pierson, now 92, were reunited in France
•Robbins came back to the country for the 75th D-Day anniversary celebrations
•Told a group of French journalists about Pierson, who he still had a picture of
•They fell in love in 1944 but Robbins then had to leave to fight in Eastern Front
•Both got married and have families of their own, but still thought of each other
•Now both widowed, Robbins and Pierson have promised they will meet again 




More:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7132791/American-veteran-reunites-French-woman-fell-love-World-War-II.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

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Robbins had thought Pierson was dead but told the journalists he hoped to return to her village to 'find her family'. He couldn't believe it when they told him she was 'alive and waiting for you'

 

[jmyrlefuller]

There's something endearing about these kinds of love stories. Brief fleeting love, both move on, have full lives, and get to come back together in the end.