I'm here mostly because of the tons of 80's memories and related thoughts that Stranger Things evokes for me, everything from wild times as the (much more Jonathan-like) Billy Hargrove look-alike garage band singer / guitarist I was back then to the recent accidental re-connection with a lady who I first met in 1981 who has, more recently, been the first woman since my late wife to be as much of a kindred spirit to me as El is to Mike or Nancy is becoming to Jonathan. To that lady, nicknamed 'Goodbye Girl' (it's a David Gates song and the title of a 40-year-old romcom movie), I'll say that it seems like we've each 'disturbed the soul of' the other. She's not the only one who 'gets' that Peanuts quote about 'whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens' so I can see why those 'trust issues' make us a little 'angsty' at times. I'm not exactly a stranger to experiencing 'love mixed with tragedy' having become a widower so young. If she does choose me, 'friends don't lie' and it's a 'promise' that the only thing that could ever take me from her would be the only thing that had been capable of separating my first wife from me.