: Maybe you could name them as John1 and John2: "Hi, I'm John." John1 said. "No, I'm John." John2 said. Or maybe First John and Second John. "Hi, I'm John." First John said. "No, I'm

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Maybe you could name them as John1 and John2:

"Hi, I'm John." John1 said.

"No, I'm John." John2 said.

Or maybe First John and Second John.

"Hi, I'm John." First John said.

"No, I'm John." Second John said.

And maybe when they are talking to each other they start using nick names for each other, like "Johnny come lately", "Johnny boy", "Red John", "Black John", "John Q. Public", "John Doe", etc., etc. And maybe each of them often addresses the other with the nickname he chose, so that when one uses the nickname the reader knows he is the one who gave the nickname and not the one named by the nickname.

And maybe part of the conversation will be the John who was first seen in the novel telling the other John about his life and experiences, including the ones the readers have already read about. And the other John may ask him questions about those experiences the readers have already read about, thus showing that he is not the first John.

And maybe the second John will tell the first John about his life and experiences, which the readers won't know about, and which will be different enough from the first John's experiences that the readers will know he isn't the first John, and the first John will ask him questions about them, which shows that he doesn't already know about them and thus isn't the second John and so must be the first John.

And possibly of a combination of those techniques, and maybe also using different typefaces for the speech of the two Johns, will keep the readers from getting confused.

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