I wrote my sister a lovely email filled with all the flowery peacemaking happy talk I could muster, which she did appreciate, but she still maintains her position that I tried to stifle her. I said that I didn't want to talk about it, not that she couldn't talk. I never told her to shut up or stop talking, I just didn't accept the bait when she tried to start a fight. Nobody tried to shut her up, and she took any attempts by me and Peter to calm her down as such. Mike agrees with this assessment of what happened as well.

Mike had quite a laugh when he read this part of her response:
"I do not, however, and will not, allow anyone to shut me up while I speaking or explaining something and I do remember being very hurt and frustrated by that happening to me. No matter what my state of mind might be or no matter what or of whom we are talking about, telling me I'm not allowed to explain myself is like pushing a button attached to a nuclear explosion (just so you know)."

To this I did not even respond. I think it's pretty much blown over, at least I hope so. Either way, Mom can't say anything. I did more than she asked.