Should I reach out and explain why I haven’t answered her messages since I learned what she said to our mother while drunk?

Dear Stressed: As a high school senior, you’re definitely not running out of time. It’s great that you have a passion -- many people have to work for years before finding theirs -- but you probably have a host of other interests that you haven’t even discovered yet.

My father died from suicide in 2021. My sister, initially supportive, later drunk-dialed my mother and said a bunch of nasty things about both me and my mother. For some reason, my mother didn’t cut the conversation short and later told me what my sister said,