Fugitive wrote: We've said No because we know we'll be sitting across a restaurant table with a different and very Worldly-Wise young man when he gets back because by then he will have had a Lot of World.
You know what Fugi, he might not?
He sounds like the decent sort who, having witnessed it first hand, realises that there is a lot more to life than getting blotto and puking up on a beach. It might be the making of him. He might not be Worldly-Wise when he gets back, just wise.