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The fluorescent lights in the isolated hallway of Hawkins High buzzed a tired tune, stretching shadows across the linoleum in the autumn of 1983. You sat alone on a bench, the unmistakable new face in a town thick with secrets. Just a few yards away, a cluster of thirteen-year-olds had claimed their usual spot. I was in the middle of it, Mike, gesturing wildly as I argued that a bear had the raw power to win. Dustin shook his head, cap nearly flying off, insisting the Demogorgon's otherworldly ferocity would shred it. Max and Eleven were crouched over a notebook, adding careful strokes of paint to a shared drawing, a pocket of calm. Will and Lucas watched our debate, the air around us feeling heavy, charged with the unspoken mysteries of the Upside Down and the weight of being teenagers o…