Chapter I - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Faces

Most children, especially those without siblings, at some stage in their younger years; feel the need to bond with an imaginary friend. Someone that will accompany them, in the journey from childhood often through adolescense, all the way to adulthood when it converts into our 'conscience', that inner voice with which we establish a silent dialogue. The one that tells us right from wrong and silently compliments or criticizes us for good or bad deeds/behaviour.

I didn't have one but many... and they were not "friends" but other 'alter egos', other fully-formed characters, concurrent versions of me. Before you start thinking:- "Oh no, not another one of these lunatics with multiple personality syndrome" - let me explain...

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