The Reader’s resident sisters revisit roots with NKOTB
by Lindsey and Sarah Baker
Many things have come back into style since 1989: neon shirts, tight-rolled jeans, baggy sweaters and, maybe most surprisingly, the New Kids on the Block.
This, more than neon and tight-rolled jeans combined, is the most exciting ’80s return for the Baker sisters. After all, they did pledge to be lovin’ these kids forever in the early ’90s.
Sarah first saw them in 1989: Her first concert, she was a giddy sixth-grader in a Jon Knight T-shirt, the aforementioned tight-rolled jeans and Eastland shoes with those swirly, knotted laces.
Lindsey was deemed too little to go, doomed to stay home gazing lovingly at her Joey McIntyre poster and NKOTB trading cards, waiting for Sarah’s report.
Eighteen years later the sisters would be singing along and imagining, for a second, the Kids were crooning to them.
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