Diary of a 9 year old : Sept 1999

The following is a writing out of my class diary when I was 9. The prompt was to talk a little about myself:
              " Hi! I am Kelly, as you know my favorit band is the Backstreet Boys. I like all of them. But i have a favorit. You probably know already, but I will tell you anyway. My favorit is A.J. I like him because he is funny, cute, and has a good personality."

Now, Im not quite sure who my audience was in this. I think I chose to write all my entries as if some stranger was reading it, which means I have to start from the beginning. BUT, if its a stranger who knows nothing about me, why the hell am I assuming "you probably already know...." It's also to be noted that I said A.J. has a "good personality." As If I know him personally, or even know what a "good personality is."
Typical of a 9 year old, my favorite band was a boy band who was bound to disappear at any moment. I was not lying. I was a Backstreet Boys freak. I had posters, all their cd's. The Backstreet Boys were my new Garth Brooks.
On top of that, I had an obsession with A.J. Mclean, the one with all the tattoos, piercings and dyed hair. I could have chosen the 30 year old "boy," or the one that was super Christian, or even the one that was actually closer to my age, but no go. I was IN LOVE. I knew every single factoid from his favorite color down to his favorite meal at McDonalds. To me, I was doing my duty by knowing anything and everything about my love. Im sure my parents were thrilled.
I loved dancing around to them in my room with my friend Amber, who was in love with Nick. When we would play pretend we would pretend we were married to them. The world stopped every time a video of theirs came on the tv and no one was allowed to talk or change the channel. I remember one time, I was watching TRL and they were retiring the video "I Want It That Way," because it had been played too many damn times. At that point I didn't know what they meant by "retiring the video," and misconstrued it as The Backstreet Boys were retiring. I was devastated until the very concept was described to me, and then I went on my merry way.
One birthday, I got tickets to a Backstreet Boys concert. This was the famous tour in which A.J. was placed into rehab for problems with drugs and alcohol. My fragile 10 y/o mind couldn't grasp what was happening but I stood by my man. At one point, my dad was making fun of him, and I turned to him and said "at least HE is getting help for HIS problems!" I molded his ass good. No one fucks with my man.
I stood by them until i was 12 years old and discovered more interesting music and until my brother convinced me that they would not be around forever. I was convinced they would be like The Beatles and be around for all eternity. Sadly they weren't They keep trying to make a comeback, but it will NEVER be the same....EVER.