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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Genoveva Karapeneva and Nikolay Karapenev in their shoe repair shop Wednesday morning. moved to Winnipeg from Bulgaria in 2016, where their only daughter (and only grandson) were already living. The couple had been in the shoe-repair biz for most of their working lives already, so after spending close to a year learning how to speak English, they opened a shop in Old St. Vital and, during the height of COVID, got their Canadian citizenship during a Zoom ceremony. See Dave Sanderson story 220202 - Wednesday, February 02, 2022.