Using multiple iCloud accounts

My wife and I each have McBook Airs and iPhones. I have an iCloud account which I use for email and we both use for photo stream and synching Contacts and Calendars. My wife uses Gmail for her email. So far, this has worked flawlessly for us. If either of us takes a picture with their iPhone, the pic photo streams to all four devices. If either of us make a change in Contacts or Calendars, the change appears on all four devices.
My wife is not all that happy with Gmail, and I've read that Gmail and Mavericks don't play that well together.
http://tidbits.com/article/14219
My first thought was to have my wife create her own iCloud account and use it just for her email, and continue to use my iCloud account for photo stream and synching Contacts and Calendars. My question is, can she have two iCloud accounts active? One account for just mail and the other for photo stream and synching Contacts and Calendars?
In OS X preferences under iCloud, you can select Mail, Contacts, Calendars, etc., but I don't see how you can have two iCloud accounts active at the same time. It seems that you have to sign out of one account and then sign in to the other. That also seems to be the case in iOS. Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks

You sign your most important account in in System Preferences>iCloud - this is your 'Primary' account.
You can then sign in with additional accounts in System Preferences>Mail, Contacts and Calendars - these are 'secondary accounts'.
In each case you can enable some or all of the data types (except that there is no acccess to PhotoStream with secondary accounts). Secondary accounts' data such as mail, contacts, calendars, will appear alongside the primary account's data, listed under the account's name.
Email in secondary accounts is not 'push', but is checked periodically.

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