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[hands4healing]

It's 3 October, and it's the anniversary of the day Ed and Al burned down their house. I still remember standing there, feeling the heat like a fist battering against me. I could barely breathe from how hot it was. I was crying, because I knew that Ed and Al were leaving to go on their quest, and because this was really the end of our lives

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[crackpotcrocker]

'Hoping'. That's something you're rather good at.

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[hands4healing]

I guess I have to be, hopeful, I mean. I had to hope Ed and Al would come home safely, and that Ed would figure out how to keep Amestris safe.

[crackpotcrocker]

How is it that you're able to do that?

[hands4healing]

I guess...because I trusted them.

[notasinglelady]

Was it really necessary to burn down the whole house?

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[hands4healing]

You'd have to ask Ed and Al that. It was their house.

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[notasinglelady]

Are you sure that will be a good idea?

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[hands4healing]

Ed would probably like it, Kurt. He's sad, but it helps him to talk about it, too.

[makewayforroze]

You all deserve it.

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[hands4healing]

I like to think so!

[makewayforroze]

You do!

[hands4healing]

Thank you, Roze.

[truthinfortune]

I think we've all changed for the better. And you all have become so much stronger than you were before.

[hands4healing]

Thank you, Naoto. I'd like to think that, too.

[truthinfortune]

Still, it's hard to believe that it's been over a year since I first met Ed and Al. So much has happened in that short period of time.

When things first started out, I was just offering them asylum because they were friends of Mello's. But then I got to know them better, and I couldn't help but see a bit of myself in Ed. The person I was once like when I was young and still searching for my place. I'm glad I was able to help him on his journey, even if it was only a little. I wonder if this is how Senpai felt after helping all of us...?

[hands4healing]

It's been almost a year and a half since the community found me.

Ed and Al are both amazing young men. The people they've become...I'd like to say I've had part in shaping that, but. [Winry shrugs.] I can be proud of them, no matter what.