"Well, I thought it was going to do all kinds of things. It said it was going to improve my life, so I mean, that's a pretty broad definition. Probably should have guessed from the fact that it was so broad that it would turn out to be too good to be true, but I was young and stupid."

And desperate. Rich can still clearly remember how he felt within a few months in the high school scene, and how badly he wished he could be anything but invisible to the world.