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The Sphere is a legitimate phenomenon, looming over the skyline with alien grandeur, hosting everyone from the Backstreet Boys to the Kamala Harris campaign.

Today’s forgotten backstreet can be tomorrow’s “south of…” or “north of….” the new hot place, or adjacent to the new hot place.

A young woman at that time had three choices to avoid utter disgrace for herself and her family: taking her life in her hands in a backstreet abortion, going out of state to visit her Aunt Tilly and returning after giving up her child for adoption or getting married.

Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, became a YouTube sensation nearly a decade ago for dancing to the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody.”

TikTok is awash in videos with phrases like “Y2K office inspo,” featuring tips on how to dress like the long-lost Backstreet Boy or Destiny’s forgotten Child.