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  1. Hold me now, leave me later by

    Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

    07 May 2025

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    The thing was, Jonathan knew he was a queer before he knew what the word actually meant.
    He was seven years old.
    [...]
    Steve, in Jonathan’s opinion, was never a queer. Steve was painstakingly normal and average, which made it more confusing and frustrating that he kept choosing Jonathan again, and again, and again——at least, until sometime between 5th and 6th grade. Queer became less of a playground insult and more of a disease, a death sentence, and they slowly stopped hanging out.
    Steve and Jonathan used to be friends. They weren’t anymore. That was the way things were.
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    Prequels and drabbles to (I Know) Where You've Been Hiding that I just couldn't fit in the main work. Can be read as a standalone.

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