I’ve thought about it, but I still feel really selfish for it.  I feel like I should be able to do it on my own and that I shouldn’t be asking people to give me money for what some might consider a frivolous purpose.  It’s not like I met him somewhere and now I’m afraid I’ll never see him again— it’s that I haven’t “met” him at all, so I feel like that, to most people, is not a worthy cause when there are so many other people— not just those in LDRs, but people everywhere— who need so much more help than we do.