Excerpt from Antoine De Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince"
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.
"You are not at all like my rose.As yet you are nothing.No one has tamed you,and you have tamed no one.You are like my fox when I first knew him.He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.But I have made him my friend,and now he is unique in all the world.You are beautiful, but you are empty.One could not die for you.To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you-the rose that belongs to me.But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose"..
*************** Awwwwww, I was touched by the loyalty of the little prince to his rose. We are very blessed if we also have a friend, family member,or partner in life who is as loyal as the little prince. There are many who are more beautiful, smarter & more talented than us, but for them, we are unique & special because it is we that they tamed.. :)
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