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 at last long <WSD>waiting</WSD> he grokked and cherished himself . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  look forward to the probable occurrence of