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BigDonkey,

As a quick follow up, allow me to make one final suggestion. I know you've made your decision, and I think it's the right one for you. If that little voice in your head is comfortable with it, then it's what you should do. I would suggest that when you speak to your girlfriend about the final decision, if you haven't already, that you focus on the fact that you're really focused on the draft issue, and that you don't feel that you can take the time off to leave the country after all the work you've put into making this happen, rather than making it all about the $$$. It sounds to me like the money is secondary, and the real situation here is that you have two "once in a lifetime opportunities" - one is your committment to getting drafted, making the pros - the other is visiting your girlfriend in France while she's on her semester abroad. The fact is that you've worked for the first one since you were about this ( | |) high. If you're that deep in the process, your girlfriend should be able to understand that it's just not a good time for you to take a week off in Europe. She's pursuing something she wants to do in Europe, and you're pursuing your dream here, and it just won't work this time. Shit, I'll bet if you went you'd be freaked out the whole time, and the two of you would end up arguing about stupid shit constantly.

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