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Article: Fortunate Son: Mitt Romney's life is his father's legacy
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2007
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BOSTON -- From his carefully coifed hair to his data-driven
business principles to his unwavering devotion to his oft-maligned
Mormon faith, Mitt Romney is the spitting image of his father
physically, professionally and morally.
The depth of their bond can be seen in one early story.
At 18, Mitt Romney met a 15-year-old girl with whom he felt he
could share his life. He then left for a year of college and a 2 1/
2-year Mormon mission in France, during which time his father not
only took his future wife, Ann Davies, to church, but converted her
to their faith.
"Your gal looked lovely as always," George Romney wrote to his
son in February 1967. "I sat next to her in church and asked if that ...