In order to claim the deduction, your student loan has to be a qualified student loan which is used solely to pay qualified education expenses. As you said it is unrelated to the schools you attended, so did you use it to pay for any qualified education expenses like tuition, books, and fees? What did you use it for?
To check if your school is an eligible education institution, click here: https://ifap.ed.gov/ifap/fedSchoolCodeList.jsp
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