It took me three tries to get into the States, and even then I had to fake the papers. They wanted to know that I was going to come back to Canada—that I wasn’t going to stay down there. So I got someone to write a letter saying I had paid rent two months in advance and that I was coming back to work in Vancouver.

But as soon as I got across the border I didn’t feel great; I didn’t feel like going very far after all. Some