"Not really." Venus shakes her head, and her smile is far less tight, far more genuine than Edie's even as it was self-deprecating. That's one of the reasons she could never be a carbon copy of U-Go Girl; Edie has a shrewdness to her lovability, a sense of mystery and self-possession, whereas Venus' charisma comes from her earnestness and desire to be liked. Edie always knew where she was in the world; Venus always felt the need to prove she'd earned the patch of earth she stood on.

She wasted so much of her life proving it.

"You seen any of our cohorts here?"