When Alan was 10 years old, life wasn’t always easy. Due to his academic talents, he was able to skip two years of school, but still found the work too simple. His parents decided home schooling would be a better option, but that also came with challenges. “I was bullied by the local neighbourhood kids and had no friends,” he says. “My mom started looking for other kids my age who I might get along with.”
In the summer of 1983, she took him to meet JJ, who lived on a nearby farm in Lake Orion, Michigan.
