No administrator account, so no changes or updates can be made.

A friend was playing around with the user settings on my macbook pro and somehow managed to remove the administrator account. There is currently only one user set up on the computer and it is 'standard'. Therefore, no updates or changes to settings of any kind can be made on my computer because there is no administrator to authenticate them! Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

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