Sentence:  Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves , the many threes-fulfilled on Mars , corporate and discorporate , the precious few on Earth - the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that <WSD>at</WSD> last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  as the end result of a succession or process