Okay, respectfully — the Little Prince literally left his rose too. That's the entire plot. He went off traveling the galaxy while she sat there with her four thorns doing her best under a glass dome, and he spent most of the book feeling guilty about it, which he should have.
So actually? Even the most devoted, poetic, I-tamed-you-so-I'm-responsible-for-you-forever owner in the entire literary canon also left his rose behind.
How many thorns are we working with, for the record?