John Santa, Author at Pittsburgh Union Progress

Like many preteen girls across southwestern Pennsylvania at the time, Meghan Klingenberg had been anxiously anticipating the night of July 10, 1999. “My best friend came over because we were going to go to the *NSYNC concert,” she recalled. There was just one problem. “As an 11-year-old girl at that time *NSYNC was the most […]

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