By frustrated - 05/08/2009 20:30 - Ireland

Today, my brother deleted all traces of the novel I've been working on for three years from my laptop. The reason? When I was born I "stole all of Mum and Dad's attention." He's 24. FML
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redbluegreen 40

In return, put a pillow over his face because "He's sucking up all the good air. "

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aback 4

Delete that ****** from your life. If he hasn't got over it by now, he never will.

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Kiwi_Splash 0

It's okay, please give him the time to heal from his childhood trauma. 24 year-olds need some tender loving too. But the novel... Lol :) Hope you have a good memory ;)

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Poonheart 0

How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Got some characters, a little epilogue?

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fretforyerlatte 0

got a compelling protagonist, do you? with lots of um, obstacles? for him to overcome?

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steveakafranxy 7

to be or not to be? that is the question.

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_Akward_ 0

To #8- moron, when your brother is 24 years old you think that might not be a problem anymore, jesus. And it doesn't even say his brother was living with him, he might have been visiting.

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Luckster 0

Dude...he's 24 years old....you think he needs his bottle too?

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SomeonePosting 0

Yeah actually. You get over it. And even if you don't get over it, that's no excuse to completely delete something that your sibling has been working on for years.

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paperboat_fml 0

# 15 Its because you're jealous. The green monster is never good, you can't side with him, its not right. :| For being 24, thats REALLY immature and they should be old enough to say **** it and not destroy someones hard work over jealousy.

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aback 4

It's not like the kid asked to be born. He should act his stupid shit out with his parents, not his sibling.

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blonde45 0

#130- it's not the younger siblings fault for being born, blame the parents for having the child.. andd have you EVER considered anger management?? You've kinda got some problems buddy.

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adelaide_evening 0

ccyto, you have some serious problems. I'm a middle child, and my sister stole all the attention. It's called having a younger sibling. Unless your parents locked you in a room and fed you feces and allowed your younger sibling to come in and drop kick you whenever they wanted, your anger seems a little uncalled for. Are you saying that every person who wasn't the youngest in their family or an only child should be allowed to go around with all this rage bottled up inside from twenty years ago, and have an excuse to do anything they want because they didn't get all the attention? Boo hoo. Seriously, you need help.

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PennyAnna 3

I am a middle child, and I have no memory of ever feeling that my younger sister stole any attention. Well, she got given my old blanket, and I was annoyed, but other than that... I was never angry with her. WTF.

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boatkicker 4

You were never Jealous of your sister, is that what you meant to say? Because if you really did mean you were never angry at your sister I'm going to call BS. However, I CAN believe that you were never jealous of your sister. I can only remember once when I was jealous of my little sister, but I can think of a whole host of times when I have been angry with her.

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Retillias 0

Bah. It's not mentally scarring, otherwise, my older brothers would have killed me by now. I needed ALOT of attention, as I used to break everything. But the attention thing... jealousy. It's natural, but isn't bloody serious. It's a petty little thing that this guy, and you, have no control over. He was affected by it, as was just about EVERY eldest child ever born. So he can't use that an an excuse. They might annoy you when you are young, but when you get older, it becomes nothing. FYL, FHL and **** the OPs life.

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GorillaSalsa 0

You deserve it for not having remote backups. Backups exist because goofy shit like this happens.

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xkaitlinwhitex 0

okay well, i probably wouldn't go that far. i wouldn't clear the recycling bin. the most it would do is give you a good scare.

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wordly 0

YDI it a little for not backing that shit up. That's THREE YEARS of work, and you didn't save it somewhere else? Fail.

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studentwoes 2

Hahahaha! I was going to say the same thing! THREE YEARS of work and you don't have it backed up anywhere? Epic Fail! These days I thought it was pretty common knowledge that everyone should back up any kind of important documents, just in case - you never know what could happen!

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steveakafranxy 7

op says his brother deleted ALL TRACES, which pretty much implies that he did back it up

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InfiniteSecret 20

If all traces of the book was on the one computer then they deserve it. What of the computer crashed or got infected. It is extremely ridiculous to save all copies of a book you have been working on for three years on one computer. Save in different things, not just one place ?

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aresgirl 0

hahaha damn that sucks. I'm sorry maybe call the geek squad? it could still be on the harddrive

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letitbe56 0

BACKUP! You only had ONE copy of your novel? You should at LEAST also have it on a flashdrive, or maybe an internet storage site. Anyway, the OP totally stole this from Little Women. Fake!! JK...

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