Multiple Personalities:
A Multiple Choice Examination
by S. M. Berry
You're having a conversation with Mandie, a slender,attractive
young woman.
It's a casual chat about nothing in particular between friends. You
take out a
package of cigarettes and immediately sense a change, as if the
atoms in the oxygen
around you were slowing slightly. Perhaps you hear an electrical
snap, the kind of
sound you hear when the air is charged with static electricity and
you flip on a light switch.
Your friend's body twitches slightly and her demeanor changes.
Shoulders square,
she puts her feet flat on the floor and assumes an instinctively
masculine pose.
Bracing her hands on her knees, she leans toward you, and says in a
voice that has
dropped two octaves, "Excuse me,ma'am. I really favor those
cigarettes you got there.
Mind if I have one? I'd be most beholding' to you." Mandie is gone.
Brent has popped in, literally.
Perhaps you and Mandie are walking from your car to the grocery
store.
As you cross the parking lot her gait abruptly changes. Her steps
are smaller, slower, clumsier.
She grabs your hand and says, "This is a really big street with
cars on it.
We got to hold hands and look both ways."
Little Emily has bumped Mandie.
Mind bending experiences, unless you live with someone who has
multiple personalities,
in which case they are everyday occurrences. For half a year I
shared my home with Mandie,
who in turn shared one body with forty-five "others" that she
called the Insiders.
Mandie herself was in her late twenties, single, of Amerasian
heritage, while the Insiders
ran the gamut from a crayon eating six year old girl named Emily to
a rugged cowboy,
Brent, who strove at all times to be gentlemanly. There was hard
drinking Fayette,
a true honky tonk woman, and Bull, with big muscles, a small brain
and a heart of gold.
Vera was a white witch who made "inside magic", a sweet natured
woman who
was all thumbs when dealing with the material world. Sam began as
some type of
indeterminate animal, then blossomed into a full human being,
naming himself the
acronym of my maiden name.
Living with them forced me to re-examine my easy acceptance of
psychiatric
dogma and challenged my concepts about Self and Soul.
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WOW...
The terrain on this cache Will change with the weather.
During the winter or rainy months there WILL be mud. So plan
ahead.
Stage one and two are micros and have no log.
Just the Coordinates to get you to the next stage.
The Final stage you will find a large container very well
stocked with lotts of goodies and Two Tb's.
There is also a Gotwake Sig item #2155
For the FTF there is a copy of the Great book dealing with
MPD,
Sybil or alternately if you are interested in becoming a Ham Radio
operator
I will provide you with the book to study for you licence.
Long Pants or gaiters will be the dress code as the whole area
is covered in star thistle.
That about covers it.
Good Luck and give me a picture while your there...
Ken K6KAW
