She is pregnant, he had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out  of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the  fire.

When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat  down to catch his breath and rest.

A photographer from the  Charlotte,North Carolina  newspaper, noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.    

He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.

As  he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives
of her  babies and kissed him just as the photographer snapped this  photograph:
 
                                     

 

The Kiss