<p>Wow, it's a small world, 'cause my parents were EXTREMELY close to buying a house in Traveler's Rest, SC, 8 years ago. (We'd signed the contract and everything, but it turned out we had been cheated by the house owners and they'd already sold the house to another couple.) I might've actually known Brooke personally...</p>
<p>Re Post 25 and other doubters:</p>
<p>Court TV's "murder by the book" featured a real-life wannabe Yalie -- a psychotic actually -- who managed graduate admission to Yale by falsifying everything on her app & her interview, and who also managed to obtain $16,000 in scholarships. She was from Cleveland, finished one year of community college there prior to enrolling in Yale. Profs began getting suspicious when it was clear she "didn't understand the concepts" and was getting F's. (The field entered: neurosciences.) Amazingly, she managed to get falsified GRE scores sent, too. Don't know how that was arranged. Hmm.</p>
<p>So yes, truth is stranger than fiction, often. Tanica something is her name. She and a cousin ended up trying to murder someone in a life-insurance identity swap. Victim survived, luckily.</p>