One day my mom and I were walking in a dank but well-lit tunnel in the New York Subway system, talking about secrets.
I told her about one of my secrets. And she told me about one of hers. But it was strange...she said it was both a secret and NOT a secret, and she said I could write about it to other kids, but that I shouldn't talk about it in school or with my friends, because they probably wouldn't understand.
I don't know why people can't learn to understand. That's why I'm writing this book.
Anyway, what she said to me, while we were walking and talking, was that she has 22 people in her head -- and that they're not all human. I couldn't understand either part of that statement. Since then I've given it a lot of thought, and I've asked my mom a whole lot about it, and that's how I'm passing this stuff on.
I guess other people have normal parents, but I'm not sure. Anyway, this is a book about how my mom is different from almost every one else's mother. My mom says that other kids like me have parents who are multiple, or maybe they're multiple but don't know it yet, or maybe they have a friend or a teacher who is multiple. Maybe the multiple knows it, maybe not. Anyway, this book is to explain it so that kids can help multiples, and understand them better. But I'm writing it about me and my mother and people like my mother.
Anna NYC April 20, 2004
--A figment of Crisses imagination.
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