“Any other self,” Jeannie said, “can use ‘I,’ and any other self can refer to the group as ‘we.’ There’s a very peculiar period during the ‘coming aware’ stage, when ‘we’ is used and yet the other selves really aren’t aware, or all that aware in some instances, of each other. It’s sort of like a cloud in the sky and you feel moisture on your skin and know it’s about to rain. It’s that kind of forewarning, I guess. Am I making sense?”
