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There was a death notice in the local newspaper recently: a lady, apparently Jewish, apparently unmarried, apparently a monumentally excellent and dedicated Scrabble player, who died quietly at the age of 96. She was a Venus. I've never seen another reference to a real one, though someone put Venus in a boy GP list the other day.

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It sounds like a minor character in an old outer-space galactic cowboys-and-crooks kiddies' TV series. At least, that's where I'd have expected to hear it, until the old Scrabble lady got her final mention.