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I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

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Winter, Somewhere, Chapters, Ms

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

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Research, Advocacy, Suffer, Ms

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.

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Go, Mob, Come, Ms

There are certain things that don't mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds. Well, campaigns are staying up late at night and big noisy crowds.

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Big, Certain Things, Staying, Ms

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

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Deep, Learn, Sometimes, Deep Breath

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

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Woman, Think, Sure, Expects

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

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Know, Through, Going, Championing

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

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Think, Here, Religious, Primary

I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!

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Next, Here, Tonight, Solemn

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

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Importance, Being, Advantage, Make A Difference

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

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Know, Mothers, Like, Struggle

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

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Play, I Think, Very, Rails

You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

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Income, Been, Very, Financially

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

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Country, Been, Receive, Diagnosed

My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.

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Great, Me, Smoke, Blessing

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

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Perfect, Always, May, I Have Learned

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

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Need, Other, Load, Burdens

When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.

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Bed, Going, Move, Crawl

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

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Got, Dad, Bottles, Welsh

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.

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Baby, Pregnancy, About, In The End

When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

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Strong, Vibrant, Ill, Bang

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

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Cards, Forward, Deal, Push

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.

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Purpose, Here, Prepared, Prayers

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.

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Love, My Life, Tell, Struggles

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.

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Values, My Life, Loved Ones, I Care

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

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Next, Like, Been, So Many People

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

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Woman, Very, Mammograms, Cancers

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

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Work, Always, Moms, Harder

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

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Mom, Big, Country, Moms

I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.

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Love, Trust, Tonight, Hearts

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