"When we met a year ago, we were strangers and we were still getting to know each other". Now, he added, the five have "better chemistry" and a clearer identity.
We were strangers when the concert began but became friendly in our mutual discomfort.
"When we were first writing Stranger Things, the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene," said Matt. "And we wrote it in about two minutes.
He told The San Francisco Examiner: "He was dearer to me than anything else in the world, especially when we were brought to New York, strangers in a strange land.
"This may sound like a silly thing to call a challenge, but it can be," said Duke. "When we are out, strangers approach us and ask very detailed and personal questions, then they go on to thank us.
Much better than when we were married, light-years better, like strangers, like Anaïs Nin characters.
When we are kind to strangers and they bother to thank us (admittedly, a rare one-two punch), it's nice to smile or nod or say "you're welcome".
In the presence of a true friend, Dr. Banks said, the smart or modulating aspect of the vagus nerve is what makes us feel at ease rather than on guard as when we are with a stranger or someone judgmental.
But maybe, just maybe, the app may make it a bit more normal – as well as easier – to reach out to strangers when we're feeling lonely.
And I think that maybe we all feel like strangers when we're teenagers – to the parents and friends who don't understand us; to our changing bodies which aren't doing what we want them to; to ourselves as we try to understand why we do the things we do.
