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Siberian native becomes a Yarmouth entrepreneur

By Lisa Chmelecki, Falmouth Forcaster

Svetlana Bell, owner of Svetlana Tailoring & Design, may never forget the first customer who visited her Main Street shop here. She was a local woman, looking for a new jacket.

Bell went to work, carefully designing a beautiful piece of clothing that she would be able to deliver with pride. But when the woman tried the jacket on, Bell shrank with embarrassment when both she and her customer discovered simultaneously that one sleeve was slightly shorter than the other.

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