The attending nurse was around 50, loud and boisterous, with clumpy mascara and frizzy black hair. Her patient was disturbed when she couldn’t insert an IV. She tried and failed repeatedly, moving the needle around the patient’s arm. Eventually, she had to call a colleague over to help.​

That nurse went by many names over the years, including Brigitte Marier, Brigitte Fournier, Bridget Clairemont, Melanie Cleroux, Melanie Gauthier, Melanie Thompson and Melanie Smith. Her real name is Brigitte Cleroux.

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In his early 20s, Wayne Kim headed to Montreal to learn the craft: hand-rolling dough rounds, boiling them in sweetened water and flipping them from oven to bin using long, wooden paddles. Kim dreamed of sharing the recipe with Korea, the country of his birth, and in late January, he made that dream a reality. The first Wayne’s Bagels in Seoul opened in the affluent Gangnam neighbourhood, complete with brick oven and decor liberally flecked with maple leaves.