Why you should let me travel across the continent to another country alone to see my significant other (whom I've never met before) and stay at his apartment for a week:

1. I have worked very hard for the past 6 months and saved up a lot of money hoping to go on this trip.
2. I'm dying to travel and leave Las Vegas for a little while. 
3. I would be so happy.
4. Maybe it'll finally shake this goblin off my shoulders.
5. I'll be staying with someone I care a lot about and who cares about me a lot and I know he'll keep me safe. 
6. He's an incredible guy who I'm already positive I'll be with for the rest of my life.
7. You'd be really happy for me if you got to know him.
8. Please get to know him. 
9. Please let me go.
10. I can and will pay for everything, I just need to let you know that it would make me so so happy if you let me go on this trip. 
11. Even if I am of legal age, I'd still respect you and understand if you don't think I should go and I won't go behind your back if you do.
12. I'd just be really heartbroken and probably slip into a coma for a couple of weeks.
13. Why can't he come here, instead?
14. I'm not sure. 
15. Mostly because I want to leave and find out how I really am by myself and see the world and see him at the same time more than I want to see him at any cost, I guess.
16. I don't want this to be another insignificant immature relationship with tons of sneaking around and things said that have no meaning to them. I want to be serious for once.
17. Also I want to have lots of sex.
18. Also because I don't think he really wants to come here and not be treated like an adult and be forced to go to church on Sunday morning. 
19. Why doesn't he come here instead?
20. Okay, I can wait to go I suppose. 
21. Just give me a second to get over this. Maybe a week or two. Or a month. Or 2 years.