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The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Saint-Exupéry’s tale is about making true friends. 

A golden-hair prince coming from a distant planet  lands on Earth. 

Wandering through the Sahara desert in search of humans, he meets a fox that wants to be tamed before it can play with the Little Prince.

The fox explains that taming means “creating ties” with another person so that two people become more special to one another. 

In his journey, the Little Prince meets a king, a conceited man,  a businessman, and a lamplighter. But all of them are too stuck in their routines to establish proper ties with him. The fox tells us a secret: in order to be truly connected to one another, two people must give part of themselves to each other. 

Despite the work and the emotional involvement required, taming enriches our lives. 

While the fox feels like he's living in a new world because the little prince has tamed him, the businessman cannot even remember what the stars he owns are called.