() “Dembé didn’t stay with me because he saw me as his savior. He stayed with me because he saw me for the man I really was… a man surrounded by darkness. No friends who could be trusted, no faith that loyalty or love could ever truly exist. (…) Dembé connected his life to mine to show me, that day and every day, that the world is not what I fear it to be. He is the light in the darkness, living proof that there is another way, that life can be good, that people can be kind, that a