Former FM: Because she certainly didn’t want our practical advice. You know, the boring stuff—do auditions, try voice work, do translation work, get a job, accept the settlement, look for an apartment, get a tutor for Elsie.
All good advice but it makes me think they never knew who their bestie was. Even I would know she wouldn't be interested unless you are blowing smoke up her fat arse.
Also re the youngest, she wanted to use her struggling in school as a stick to beat IG with. "Look what leaving us has done to her etc etc". Getting the kid a tutor doesn't serve mAlice's purposes. As I said, her whole strategy was to become such a mess (in public too) that IG would be guilt-tripped into coming back to sort it all out. AE just pretends to be helpless - it's all designed to get IG back.
Don't think you are winning nAlice... and the eldest is embarrassed by you too. No wonder.