One body...many minds. This is how we can best describe ourselves today. This strange set of circumstances was not always the case for us. We were once a "one body-one mind" person, even though this entity was only a tiny and hungry baby who first breathed life with a potential for happiness she never got to have. It wasn't her choice, just as being a collection of separate minds now is not ours. In these passages, we outline what healing from dissociative identity disorder looks like. We can share this with clarity BECAUSE WE WROTE IT ALL DOWN AS IT WAS HAPPENING. We learned early in this life to put pen to page to document our thoughts, feelings, setbacks, and triumphs in real time. It is our choice to share these things with you. There are many hugely sad things in these passages but it is not our intent to dwell on them. Because we have survived to share what happened, it is not really sad but is evidence that we have triumphed over what could loosely be termed as "adversity". You can judge for yourself as to whether we successfully prevailed over our tragedies. We think we did. The Fortress