"I like to start with a blank slate," Helen Yentus explains over coffee at a bustling Brooklyn cafe filled with fellow twenty-somethings. "I enjoy the feeling of not knowing what I'm doing." Perhaps this penchant for unfamiliar territory stems from her dramatic arrival in New York. When she was nine, her family was forced to flee Moscow amid the social upheaval that led to communism's collapse; they settled in the largely Russian community of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
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