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Escape to New York

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

Ophira Eisenberg
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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