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Domesticating Julia

An East European teenager's dramatic escape from an Upper East Side domestic slavery situation

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Monica Hoenig

Astoria, NY

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  1. Domesticating Julia

    An East European teenager's dramatic escape from an Upper East Side domestic slavery situation

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Julia, an 18 year old Hungarian teenager realizes that she is being kept against her will as a housekeeper in an upscale Upper East Side home. Once she realizes that the family does not intend to pay her, or to give her passport back she plots to get out of the house by any means necessary. Once the man of the house starts making advances towards her, she has no time to plot, she has to act. Because the family keeps her locked in her room, the only way out is her bedroom window. She solicits help form a construction worker next door and she climbs down the three story wall by tying sheets to her bed and hanging them out the door. The Hungarian construction worker tries helping her once she is on the ground, but his boss takes charge instead. He offers Julia a job. She has a bad feeling when the good Samaritan gently shoves her into his car and once again she has to bolt. She runs until she ends up at Pennsylvania Station sitting under one of the pay phones. She systematically calls every name in the phone book that she recognizes as Hungarian last names or otherwise known as "hope".

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