This Love Will Last Forever

I just got home from one of the most surreal experiences that I've had in awhile. I just attended the New Kids on the Block concert. Jordan, Jon, Joey, Danny and Donnie. Back together again. Life really is good.

A few things I noticed:

• About 95% of the attendees were women in their late twenties - early forties
• About 90% of the 95% were about 20 pounds + overweight.
• About 80 % of the 90% designed some kind of puff paint/scanned photo/highlighter matching NKOTB shirt with their friends.
• About 75% of the 80% we could not distinguish whether their "throwback" to the eighties was a costume or how they really dress.
• About 100% had been preparing for this night since they listened to "I'll be loving you forever" on their walkman (on repeat) the night their boyfriend broke up with them in middle school.

I have to say - age has been good to all 5 of the New Kids - all were extremely hot. I fell in love all over again. I screamed my head off like I was 10 years old again sitting in my living room watching the Hangin Tough video.

The bizarre part was that it was all exactly the same. They sounded the same - My heart skipped a beat when Jordan went into his falsetto. They were even dressed the same as they were 15 years ago. Joey in his classic skinny black tie, Danny in his muscle tee, Donnie in his chains and Red Sox hat, Jon in his button down still looking like the stage is the last place on earth he wants to be, and Jordan with his flowing unbuttoned shirt.

And of course the dance moves were the same - the right stuff hand in belt side step, the arm swinging hangin tough, the 87 pivot turns while they stand in a row, and Joey belting out Please Don't Go Girl while on his knees - it was like I was watching it 15 years ago and everything was the same - just that they were slightly older and hotter. I loved every minute of it.

Donnie pulled a sign out from the crowd because he thought the simple words had such a lasting impact on him. That never in his wildest dreams would he think they would be back here in this moment. Who knew that as a grown woman I would be screaming my head off for the five guys I loved in the 4th grade. Just as that sign said - This Love Will Last Forever.