The author was raised in suburban Philadelphia looking forward to adulthood, when he could begin to live the televised life which he so admired. Taking styling cues from 80s leading men, he could only dream of his future girlfriends, cars, clothes and the sprawling estate with a gated driveway which housed seemingly every primetime family, whether you were a Los Angeles industrialist or managed your oil empire from Dallas or Denver. He is still waiting for his Lear jet.