Join 3 anchor points for "intersection" effect?

Hi,
I'm seriously stuck trying to join 3 open paths with stroke only, into something of an intersection that is dividing 3 pie slots. However I can't join more than 2 of them, as the screenshot below the third one gets left behind, Join command doesn't work   Because I have the opacity down to 70% you can see the ugly overlap in the intersection and I need to join all the 3 points for them to look as they should. Does anyone know if/how this can be done in Illustrator?
Thanks!

Laiza,
You can only have 2 segments from each Anchor Point, so you cannot join 3.
You may select the three paths and use Object>Path>Outline Stroke, then join the three new closed paths with Pathfinder>Unite.

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