LUCKY FAN WINS TRIP TO "O2" CD RELEASE PARTY

Brittany Buzzini, 14, an O-Town fan from California, got the surprise of her life in early November when she won a contest to attend the "O2" release party in New York. Here is her story in her own words.

"Hi, My name is Brittany Buzzini. I am 14 years old and I live in San Jose, CA. This is the story of the most wonderful trip and time of my life. On November 5, 2002, my step-father received an e-mail from one of the executives at J records. To me, it was just an ordinary day. I let him get on (the computer) to check his mail after I went on to check up on any new O-Town info. I was sort of bummed out because o-town.com had just released the winners of the people who got to go to the LA listening party and I was not one of them. Who knew that I would be even more lucky than that!

Anyway, my step-dad gets on and calls me into the room asking me if I entered anyone in this O-Town contest to go to New York. I told him "Yeah, I entered you, me, and mom, it is to go to their record-release party in NY, but it doesn't really matter because I know I didn't win, why?" He said,"Well you won..." At that very second, it felt like my heart just went on a roller coaster ride and landed in my throat. I didn't believe it. I told him: "There is no way I could have won, there is like a one in a million chance you could win a contest like that, all of their fans enter, there is absolutely no way I could have won, it must be some cruel prank."

Well......it wasn't. The letter was sent by a J Records staff member. This letter said that we had won two tickets to NY to stay in a 5 star hotel and two passes to O-Town's record release party in NYC and I would get to actually meet them. I literally fell on the floor and started crying. I could not believe it. I was going to meet O-Town, my idols, my loves, the 5 guys I listen to in my CD player praying that one day one of them would come knocking on my door. Not to mention I was going to NYC!!!!

So, on Monday, November 11, the day before the party, a limo arrived at our house to take us to the airport. Although the flight was 5 hours long, I didn't care, because I was going to New York to meet O-Town! We got there at 9:00, had dinner, walked around a bit, and then went to bed to get ready for the next, best day of my life!

On Tuesday, November 12, we walked around for 8 hours (and got the new O-Town CD of course) and went back to get ready at 7:00 pm. I put on my brand new outfit just for them and we headed to the Lotus Club.

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When we got there, even though they were not out yet, the atmosphere of it all excited me. At around 9:45 they came out. Of course I got first row, and when they sang "These Are The Days" and "From The Damage" I was right there with them. And, since I had already heard the songs, I was singing along with them and when Erik saw me he came up to me, held my hand and said that he couldn't believe what a great fan I was, Jacob kept looking at me and smiling, Trevor touched my hand and said hi, Ashley was just beautiful and perfect like always but close up so I could actually see his face, expressions, smile, etc., and Dan well, was just Dan, beautiful and all.