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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"It was the worst possible time to move to Hawkins, Indiana./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"You moved to Hawkins about a week before the deaths, the murders—-and after a few weeks, the earthquake hit. Your parents knew that Hawkins had "history", but they still decided to move here because it was a small town, and they made a good deal and bought a nice house./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"You thought the town was great./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Dad is in a coma because of that terrible earthquake, and mom stays by him 24/7 after she finishes work, and you usually go with her. Mom expects you to study when she's at work. But you don't. Instead, you spent your days outdoors, measuring the dying of the Hawkins. You'd grab a notebook and a pencil, use a ruler, and calculate. According to your calculations, it wouldn't be long until your street started dying too./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Some days you'd be too tired, and you would stare out of your window, listening to music and tapping a gun against the window to the beat of the music. You've heard rumors about monsters in this area, and you wasn't going to take any chances. Dad taught you how to use a gun when you were eleven, and you have a pretty good aim./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"You wouldn't even remember when you started doing that until you were halfway through the song, and you'd put the gun down./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"It was a weird habit of yours./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"After the earthquake, you didn't really have anything you liked to do anymore./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The only thing you did like about these days, was the fact that you had found myself a few friends. You met Mike Wheeler, Will Byers, Lucas and Erica Sinclair, Dustin Henderson and Jane "Eleven" Hopper in the hospital a week after the earthquake, and since their friend Max Mayfield was in a coma like Dad, you talked a bit. Then you discovered you all played DD, and you became friends pretty quickly. But sometimes you felt ignored because they kept talking about some secret in a huddle, and it seemed like they were debating over if they should tell you it./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Then eventually they did one day, a good three weeks after you met. You didn't believe it at first, and said they were talking bullshit, but El showed you her powers. It was the biggest surprise of your life, and you were astonished. You were also glad they told you because it meant that they really trusted you. You started hanging out with them more often, especially El. Ms. Byers and Mrs. Wheeler took an instant liking to you, as well as Mike's sister Nancy, who you liked to hang out with along with Eleven. Steve and Robin became your good friends, and Robin also came out to you after about three months. Jim Hopper, El's dad, didn't like you at first, but his attitude changed when he learned how good your aim was. You could shoot a bird right in the eye, and Hopper pretty much didn't care too much about El spending a lot of time with you after that. You also loved playing DD with everyone, and sometimes you were amazed and a little jealous of how good Erica was. Will's drawings for our games were always awesome. Mike, Dustin and Lucas were always really dramatic during games. You all tried to forget every tragic thing that happened sometimes, when it was raining outside. Everyone would be in Mike's basement, and I mean everyone, and you'd all be laughing and talking./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"This happened today,/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Remember when we first saw the demogorgon?" Mike laughed, and everyone smiled at the memory./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Boy, we didn't know about Vecna then." Dustin said, shaking his head. "Boy we didn't know we were screwed."/p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"These were conversations you couldn't really join. You heard of the stories, but you weren't actually there. Everyone continued the conversation and you got bored of just listening, so you pop on your headphones and sit by the window, and before you know it, you've pulled out your gun and you've started tapping the window with your gun to the beat of the music again./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"El heard this, and immediately sat up. It was the Morse code Hopper had taught her, and she quickly realized the sound was coming for you./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Her blood ran cold when she deciphered it./p
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