Nope! Not making it up at all! It's all true baby. And I left stuff OUT!
Kadaten, no bad blood between us. In fact, we were pretty close growing up and then high school came. We realized we were nothing like each other. Basically, my brother is a cold, self involved wipe.
In high school and college, he was so incredibly preoccupied about being the "cool" one that he even developed this ridiculous "cool guy" walk and would purposefully smirk as he talked to you. Thank God the walk is gone, but he still has that know-it-all smirk.
I tried to stay in touch with him after college but he never returned messages. After he got married, nothing. So what's the point.
In fact, after his first daughter was born, I flew out to CA to see them and meet her. He picks me up at the airport and his first question is "So why are you visiting for?" This, after I spent several hundred dollars on a brand new newborn, 2-4 month, and 6 month old warddrobe for the new kid!
He once admitted to me that the reason why he went to medical school and joined the Navy was because he knew if he did so, our father would pretty much give him whatever he wanted. And that was true. He got a car, a furnished apartment and a parking space! That's just to name a few things.
Here are a couple of other things:
He applied for a Naval scholarship and asked my Dad to ask his good friend (surgeon general of the Navy) for a recommendation. The guy wrote the recommendation thinking he was writing it for ME! He never even knew Mike!!! Mike made him think it was me!
He had decided to become an orthopedic surgeon and was accepted into a program at a Naval hospital. He realized that being in orthopedics, he'd have heavy interraction with patients so he changed his mind after his acceptance and wanted to do radiology. He'd only have to interract with people minimally. This, after my dad pulled strings, wrote his own recommendation (retired Naval officer and MD), and got his friends to send in recommendations. Mike didn't care.
He freely admits he wants money, hates people and can't be bothered with anyone that doesn't have the same interests he does which are military and medicine.
There used to be a bit of jealousy on my part but that's long gone. Now I think he's a walking parody of himself.
I feel vindicated now as well. My own father and our little brother think Mike is a complete hole.
...it's absolutely terrible how he treated you and not only that, I'm upset with the rest of your family for the way THEY allowed you to be treated like that.....I guess it's like they say, you can't pick your family but thank goodness you can pick your friends!
Those girls should kiss your feet for not making them wear big butt bow dresses or shiny gathered at the waste candied pink numbers......all except the mean one who definitely needed the BIG BUTT BOW shoved up her you know what! 
