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* [[Many Waters]]
 
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=== Additional tropes: ===
 
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: And no boy is a clearer example than Zachary Grey.
* [[Blind Musician]]: Emily Gregory, a blind genius pianist who first appears in ''The Young Unicorns''.
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* [[Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe]]: In ''The Love Letters''.
** Also shows up ''A Severed Wasp''. Justin Vigneras, the composer-musician husband of classical pianist Katherine Forrester, is castrated in a concentration camp during World War II, but insists after the war that Katherine have children with other men to convince people that he's straight and that they are happy together. As a result, she gets pregnant by two different men. An old friend and conductor sires her daughter Julie; her son Michou is the child of the Kommandant of the camp where Justin was castrated and his hands were shattered. Katherine is the only one who knows the identities of both men, however.
* [[Sapient Dolphin]]: Every dolphin in ''A Ring of Endless Light''. L'ENgleEngle's dolphins are not only smarter than humans, they're spiritually purer and more innocent as well--unlike actual dolphins, [Somewhere a Mammalogist Is Crying|which have been known to try to rape humans and which will tear a baby shark apart and use the corpse as a volleyball].
* [[Sorry, Billy, But You Just Don't Have Legs]]: Dave Davidson's daughter, Emily, in ''A Severed Wasp''. Emily is an aspiring ballet dancer, and a gifted one--until she's hit by a car and loses one of her legs.
* [[Tears of Fear]]: Charles O'Keefe's tears in ''The Arm of the Starfish''. To quote his sister Polyhymnia (later Polly), "He ''never'' cries unless...unless something is awfully...wrong."