When Joanna Gregory, a resident of London, was 25, she visited her father in Spain. Although there had never been any physical or sexual abuse, she’d grown up feeling unsafe around him. “His life experience is rooted in the Holocaust era, so I know that there are genetic and emotional things he’s dealing with,” she says.
“But when I visited him, he was in a very angry space and feeling suicidal. He had bought a couple of kittens, and they happened to be infested with fleas. I stayed in
