Welcome to R slash Relationships, where OP's life is ruined by his brother's prank.

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Seven years ago, when I was 17 preparing for college, I was trying to find scholarships. I applied to a scholarship run by a local

family using money from a man in the family who was very wealthy. They

eventually announced that a girl from our town had won and I thought nothing of it.

My brother, who's 27, is now an Alcoholics Anonymous and is making amends.

He admitted to me that I won the contest. He said that an old teacher of his was on the scholarship board and saw him at the store and brought it up to him assuming we knew. But we didn't know because the letter hadn't come in the mail yet. But

after she said something my brother knew about it and when the letter came he took it.

He was mad at me at the time. He doesn't even remember why.

And he says that he responded to the letter thanking them, but telling them that I had received

a full ride scholarship to the school of my choice and no longer needed funding.

He gave them his own cell phone number and said they could call him with any questions.

He said they did call him and he just convinced them that I didn't need the scholarship and they should give it to someone else, so they did.

He admits that it was pretty terrible of him, but doesn't seem to think that it was a big deal.

He doesn't even see the value of the money lost because I still got to go to college.

But the difference was that I ended up $40,000 in debt with student loans.

I still owe $35,000 and the interest is increasing.

That scholarship would have paid out a total of $45,000 over the course of my college education as long as I maintained minimum grades.

His prank cost me tens of thousands of dollars.

I know that he's an alcoholics anonymous and the goal is to make

amends and fix relationships, but this honestly makes me never want to see him again.

I spent college so incredibly stressed over money and this could have solved so much of it.

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