Jhann, Hyanni, and Angel’s Unquotables

I was born a quadruplet, but my parents and the midwife who "birthed" my mother didn’t (and still don't) know. My certificate of live birth didn’t say I had a twin or twins(?) or whatever you call them, yet I know I have other selves: Jhann, Hyanni, and Angel.

We get along well together. Of course, we always have disagreements, but that’s normal, as we all have different personalities and beliefs. As siblings sharing just one body, we get on with each other pretty well.

One night, I eavesdropped on my three selves conversing. It was such an interesting conversation that I kept playing the highlights in my mind over and over. I thought I should transcribe it and share it with you. But you may quote not.
—Sherma

Ten years ago, I’d been told I’d one day come home a failure. And pregnant…unwed. Ha ha! Can anyone show me the child a faceless father and I conceived? Ten years ago I’d been told I’ll never make it, that I was too poor to even dream of ever making it. Luckily I didn’t listen. I shudder to think what I would have become if I had.

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Poverty, principle, and determination do not breed a weakling.

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I don’t have much respect for a person who cannot play clean — someone who’d stoop so low as to step on someone else’s toes and use other people to get there (Wherever that is). I could work, charm, bitch, and bluff my way to where I wanna be. But dammit, I play fair.

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What I am now is the result of all the pleasant and the dreadful things that life had dealt me — all the challenges I conquered, the trials I failed, the tears I shed, the pain I endured, the laughter that rang out of my lips, and the love that I shared.

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This is who I am now. Whatever I gained, whatever I lost, whatever is left of me, sum me up.
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I have been both very careful and extremely reckless in all my steps. That’s why I’m here.
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I know what I’ve got and I’d do my damn best to capitalize on it — to make up for the things I don’t have…and may never get.
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With the exception of my family, there is nothing I got in this life that I didn’t have to work hard and fight for. But then, I think I have more than enough.