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    Commentary: The enduring legacy of 'the Nicholas Effect'

    by Reg Green, Los Angeles Times Oct 04, 2019 4 minutes

    You may remember the story of how my young son, Nicholas, was killed. Many people do.

    My wife, Maggie, and I and our two children were on vacation, traveling at night on a divided highway in southern Italy when a car with two masked men pulled up alongside us. One waved a pistol and yelled at us to stop.

    We got away - but not before they fired several shots. One hit 7-year-old Nicholas in the head. Mercifully, his 4-year-old sister, Eleanor, asleep beside him, was unhurt.

    Later we would learn that the assailants had planned to rob us, mistaking our

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