When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time alone. I was an only child and my parents were rich and in show business and travelled a lot, frequently being gone for weeks and sometimes months at a time. They never seemed to want to take me with them in their travels, explaining that it would interfere with my schooling, so they left me home with a succession of housekeepers who lived in the house and hired other help to cook and clean. I was kind of a strange, geeky kid and didn’t have