has come to know and love the little prince; he knows that to keep him on Earth would be to hurt his friend. Before the little prince leaves, he tells the pilot, “In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the night sky.” Sometimes you have to let people go, because to keep them would be to trap them. But letting them go can be the truest demonstration of love there is.