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"We're going to need another table,"  Melissa had said to Jhan. They stared into the dining room of their Brooklyn home that night in 2007 at a piece of furniture that, as Melissa would one day put it, "came to represent a way that God was moving."

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These articles — a memorial by Sveta's husband Misha, and Sveta's own story — have been edited only slightly in order to preserve their own voices. They have been translated into English from the original Russian.