To When Adults Were Little Children

Just started rereading The Little Prince and absolutely love Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's dedication:

TO LEON WERTH I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse: this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted.  If all these excuses are not enough, than I wan to dedicate this book to the child whom this grown-up once was. All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it.) So I correct my dedication: TO LEON WERTH WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY