MIZPAH, N.J. — Even if you're prepared, making the turn into Funny Farm Animal Rescue, where the speed limit drops to 1 mile per hour, is like entering another, better, world.
It's not quite the goat character from "Wicked," Dr. Dillamund, teaching a class at Shiz University, but close. Let's just say, the usual rules, boundaries, fears, assumptions, and hierarchies do not apply.
Laurie Zaleski long learned that those conventions are false idols, embodied most dramatically in her father, a Camden County college professor whose persistent violence drove her mother into the woods of Turnersville to collect animals, people, peace of mind, in a crowded ramshackle home but with space to breathe.
