A year ago, when I was 15 years old, my parents took a two month summer vacation to Europe, leaving me in the care of my mother’s friend Jenny in New York City. Jenny and my mother had met in college, and became good friends, and had kept in close contact ever since. Unlike my mother, who had gotten married, given birth to me, and become a stay-at-home mom, Jenny had moved to New York after college and started her own fashion company. By the time I was 12, Jenny’s company was flourishing, and she had become
