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I Was Eddie Munson, and You Hated Me

We love the Stranger Things resident metalhead, just not in real life

Collage photos of author (plus Eddie Munson)

It wasn’t that it hurt getting shoved into lockers, but that it confirmed I was “the freak.” When checked into a metal grey locker while walking to class, some jock would sneer, “Watch where you’re going, freak!” Sometimes they’d call me…