No one was more excited about the New Kids on the Block reunion tour than we were until about five minutes ago. You see, we missed the concert when we were young (we were too poor to go, it was very traumatic) and we were obsessed — obsessed! — with NKOTB. We had NKOTB clothes, sheets, and a board game if we remember correctly. We even had a poster of Joey McIntyre over our bed. We wrote "I heart Emily" on his orange t-shirt and would kiss him every night before we went to sleep (when we met Joey in 2001 and told him that story he looked really, really scared).
Fast forward to nowadays — we need to be completely honest here — we still have a NKOTB wall phone even though we don't even have a land line. It's for show, for irony, if you will. And that's kind-of what we thought the NKOTB reunion would be about. We were looking forward to an updated Hangin' Tough and maybe even a grown-up version of Step-By-Step ("step six/you can suck my dick"), but no, Jordan, Jon, Joey, Donnie and Danny are for real.
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