| After the divorce of her brother in the nineteen eighties she distanced herself actively perhaps deciding he was beneath her for not emulating her versions of propriety. Her first child tendencies toward perfection and control are never far from the surface. In school she was a competent test taker and displayed technical virtuosity in a number of academic pursuits.
Like her mother she often chose to surround herself with those of greater financial and social status and has benefitted from inheritances more than once as a result of following her mothers examples. Unlike her mother she is freely judgemental, opinionated and quick to anger.
She quit living in the US after college in the sixties. She attended a university in Italy and traveled in Europe and South America. Except for a few brief years in New York has not lived in the US since the late seventies. She finds American culture "too pseudo" for her taste. Her husband, an Englishman now retired from teaching can barely bring himself to speak to his brother in law, no matter how welcome he is made.
She has a surprisingly aggressive and competitive nature. It was difficult to mannage the jealousy she felt over the relationship between her brother and their father. Likewise the care for her mother provided around the clock by her brother lead her to take drastic actions that can only be described as shocking and appalling.
After the death of her father she maneuvered her brother into an unacceptably compromising position in order to get him out of the way. Subsequently she elected to direct the man claiming to market her fathers work in a scheme to use the paintings as interior decoration in condominium developments in the Carribean and South America.
Upon the death of her fathers sister, she was quick to come to the US to claim an expensive piano and valuable furniture before her aunts body was cold. She appeared to not be concerned with the reading of any will.
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