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His brother never really smiled anymore. Ed could tell when his sibling smiled. He heard it in the younger one's voice on occasion. The younger boy laughed as well, but his brother never actually smiled. It was an almost impossible gesture for the youth, thanks to a twisted turn of events. Those events had turned them into who and what they were now, and those events had riddled Ed with guilt.
All Ed had were memories of those smiles and of better times, and everyone knew that memories were nothings more than ghosts. He would never forget, though, because a ghost was better than nothing.