You’re not from ‘round here. You were born and raised in Manhattan, but you were tired of the same repetitive summers, and so when your aunt, Joyce, invited you to come stay in Hawkins, Indiana, for the summer, you said yes. Of course, you don’t know anything about the Upside down, El’s powers, or anything relating to that.

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The Greyhound bus rattled into the Hawkins bus depot with a tired sigh of air brakes. The Indiana summer air hit you like a warm, wet blanket—thick with the smell of cut grass and asphalt, a world away from the sharp, metallic scent of Manhattan.

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