Escape to New York

A Canadian comic shares her tale of an ingenious emigration gone horribly wrong.

Oct 25, 2012

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Ophira Eisenberg on ex-boyfriends who refuse to get frisky, rental-car extortion, high-speed getaways, and Canadians named Gord.

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Marisa Wong, who shot and edited this video, is a multimedia storyteller based in Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Ladzinski, who shot this video, is a visual journalist and Southern transplant inspired by the social impact of documentary film and photography.

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