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Wow, good luck with this.
I suggest you stop to think about the chronology of everything. For starters, just place all the threads in the order you originally wrote them in, and then think about all the key events that happened in the story and look at the order they happened in.
Events that happened to more than one character would be good transition points. If Laura and Anna were both present when this or that thing happened, it could be a good moment to switch from one POV to the next.
Also, I strongly suggest you focus on pruning and cutting rather than adding any new words–sounds like you’ve got way too many words as it is! Whittle it all down to indespensible story chunks and it might be easier to put them in some kind of logical order.
Again, good luck with it.
Obviously, the thing you have to start with is making it into a novel. After that, you revise. Don’t know how they fit together? Start looking at how the trouble progressed, from smaller things to larger things. You can mix that up a little bit, but trouble in novels usually grows. Start there.
You cannot revise it as a novel if you haven’t made it into one, though.
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