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Set in 1980, before disappearances and monsters, Joyce Byers was already surviving her own kind of monster.
Karen Wheeler has spent her life doing everything right: marriage, children, appearances, but is too scared to question why it feels wrong.
When the two women reconnect, they feel a pull to each other that they can’t ignore.
What starts as a quiet, dangerous connection between two women trapped in unhappy marriages slowly becomes something neither of them can walk away from, even when everything begins to fall apart.
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chap 18
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After graduation, Joyce Horowitz and Karen Dawson say goodbye.
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With Vecna defeated and the Upside Down closed for good, Hawkins returns to normal (at least, that's what we would assume.) Karen is released from the hospital along with Ted. He believes that it was an earthquake, Karen knows otherwise. She confides in Joyce who reluctantly fills her in, leading to a breakdown and new revealed emotional intimacy. As everyone tries to put their lives back together, Karen continues to lean on Joyce which inevitably leads to something deeper.
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Joyce and Karen started an affair which led them to divorcing their husbands, leaving with the kids, and moving to Chicago together.
The life they built may be a strange living situation to anyone else. But to them, things couldn’t be better. Even if they have to hide their relationship to the world.
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When Joyce and Hopper return to Hawkins from Russia, Hopper can’t get back to his old self. Not wanting to drag Joyce down with him, he breaks up with her. She leans on Karen for comfort but that comfort turns into something more. Something secretive. Something beautiful.
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Joyce is dumped and jumps right into a relationship with Karen.
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the best of all the years have gone by by jellyfishes
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Nov 2017
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Karen gets drunk and shows up at Joyce’s door. They have some things to talk about.
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I Know I Could Have Loved You (But You Would Not Let Me) by joycesjournals
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Nov 2025
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Karen is madly in love with Joyce while living together. But Joyce doesn’t give her the time of day, making Karen’s feelings hurt and thrive all at once.
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Joyce Byers, Long Island badass is a successful marine biologist. Everyone wants her or wants to be her. She’s a confident woman on the surface but no one knows the real her. The only person who is able to crack through her surface isn’t a person at all. It’s a mermaid named Karen who got washed away from her home. Joyce takes her in and falls for her. Things get even more complicated when her fisherman husband comes home, saying he’s on the hunt for a mermaid he saw.
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Vecna is dead. The Upside Down is gone. Everyone seems to be moving on except Nancy Wheeler.
But after unexpectedly acquiring the power to freeze time, Nancy decides that maybe she doesn’t have to.
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a.k.a Nancy makes a lot of stupid impulse decisions, but we love and cherish her for it.
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