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The idea of treating trauma passed down from one generation to the next in humans was highly controversial, to say the least. Just the idea of historical trauma was argumentative, though the concept had been widely accepted in Native American communities for hundreds of years, or more recently, within groups descended from Holocaust survivors. Yet therapists and geneticists had been puzzled for decades, searching for evidence of what they called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
“Hope.” He squeezed her hand and smiled gently. “Sometimes that’s better than love.”
“I think people have forgotten how to be human. Do you know what I mean?”
“Strangers are the people we forgot we needed in this life,”
