Trivia / First Law

• Parody Retcon: When this story was republished in The Rest of the Robots, Dr Asimov prefaced the story by pointing out that this was a Donovan story, not an Asimov story. When it was republished in The Complete Robot, he warns the audience that this story is not to be taken seriously. This is because the robot in this story breaks the First Law due to a motherly instinct, which robots aren't programmed with.

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