Ever find an old photo from a movie star and think they are so beautiful and wish you could go back in time to meet them?

This is a picture of Simone Saint-Cin that my friend Jared in Berlin found for me as he works on the restoration of a lost short French film called, "La Cit� Je t�adore." Jared knows I've been looking for any and all info about her.

World War One was still burning and Wyatt Reed, a great great uncle of mine on my mother's side was in Paris living in Montmartre. One day, according to his diaries he was walking down the long stairs of Rue Foyatier when walking up toward him was the most beautiful girl in the world. He immediately hopped over the railing and began following her. As a Tennessee hunter he was a patient man. He followed a safe distance behind her.

Simone Saint-Cin was her name and she enter the side stage door with the other dancers of the Paris Night Club. He bought a ticket and wait for her show. She was just a background dancer, but his eyes were on her.

In a letter back home he wrote, "When I look at her my heart aches, I haven't slept for days."

After the shows and in the early morning Wyatt followed her to a cafe where he sat a few tables away and watched her drink her cup of coffee. She finished and as she left her pay on the table and turned to leave she glanced at him with a slight smile and walked away.

Months later with an Army buddy of his in a cinema, they watched some film and one short subject that might just have been "La Cit� Je t�adore" as it's the only one know to have her in it. It was a small part in a small film, but he watched it many times and always leaving before the main features as not to be distracted and possible lose the image of her face already branded in his mind.

Wyatt Reed was shot in the back by a sniper in Verdun. In the dirt and unconscious, he was deemed dead and left that way even after over 400 other wounded were collected and taken to a French Army Hospital near Marne. If it wasn't for the fact an Ambulance truck broke down next to him and the driver found him coughing he might have died there.

Days later he awoke to the most beautiful nurse in the world, Simone Saint-Cin.

While dancing she had studied and received a diploma from the French Red Cross. In all that mess they found each other, married, had children, drank wine and danced with each other at almost every sunset.