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'''Cas:''' Don't call me "red-headed!" }}
* [[The Medic]]: Dr. Edith Stone, M.D. (Roger's wife), is a classic example of this. Easy-going on everything else, she is ''draconian'' on enforcing proper medical procedure and the Hippocratic Oath. At one point she politely but firmly ignores her husband's objections when she volunteers to transfer to a ship {{spoiler|that is suffering from a viral plague that has already killed their ship's surgeon.}}
** When the ''Rolling Stone'' arrives at the asteroid colony, the family's only intent is to sell their cargo, stay long enough to pick up a load of high-grade from the miners, and spend some time taking a rest. That intention lasts exactly five minutes, because the colony has no doctor and has just discovered that the ''Stone'' has a qualified M.D. on board. Edith issues a flat ultimatum -- she ''will'' ensure that every person who asks for her services is given the best medical treatment she can give them. Roger is barely able to negotiate a compromise in which a) Edith's clinic will be set up in the town hall/general store, not the ship and b) she will not be obligated to do house calls save in gravest emergency.
* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: As is a common theme in Heinlein's work, Hazel and Roger both have careers as fiction writers.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: After Cas and Pol are arrested on Mars for tax evasion, their father notes that at least it wasn't for experimenting with atomics inside city limits.
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