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Initially attempting a career as a freelance journalist, Nicholas began work for
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Nicholas began to suffer from a "rare genetic disease" which eventually restricted him to a wheelchair due to the wasting of his thigh muscles (his sister Gilda is also a sufferer). He retired from Northern Foods and moved to the
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