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"I love the Lakes," said Mitt Romney. I do as well and I've never heard someone else who had returned back east say so. I considered the Midwest with the same patronizing condescension that is imprinted on us New Englanders, but after a few years in Ann Arbor I fell in love with the Great Lakes. Camping under the stars at Rabbit Blanket above Lake Superior with the family, I felt we'd come to the center of the world as Native Americans see the Lakes and their life spirit, Manitou. Then when we came back east it seemed almost wrong to do so, but duty called. And Romney was governor then of Massachusetts. I came to admire him for these things, which no one else seemed to notice. He would seek the simple things and find in them substance and strengths. Next week, if Romney wins Michigan, he will sweep the series.

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