"headmate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018, \"The Entropy System\", Toi Magazine, December 2018/January 2019, page 56",
          "text": "The first one of the headmates (our word for alter) I was aware of was a boy named Josh."
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          "ref": "2020, Tynan Drake, \"Intersectional Representation: LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse voices in transmedia fiction\", paper submitted to Ball State University, page 36",
          "text": "With co-fronting, typically only one headmate at a time functions as the ‘main fronter’ who does the majority of physical driving of the body, […]"
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        },
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