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Vermont Couple Lauds Romney at Convention

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MONTPELIER, Vt. -

A Vermont couple says they're grateful to Mitt Romney for helping them and their terminally ill son decades ago when he was suffering from cancer.

 Speaking Thursday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Ted and Pat Oparowski, of Randolph, tenderly recalled how Romney befriended their 14-year-old son David as he was dying of cancer in the late 1970s.

 Pat Oparowski said they would "be ever grateful to Mitt for his love and concern."

 She said Romney, who they knew through their church in Massachusetts, spent time in the hospital with their son, helped the boy write a will and bought him fireworks that were eventually set off in Maine.

 She said Romney also gave the boy's eulogy at his funeral.

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