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Anyone know anything about his life? Nothing on Google.
MineralMan
(146,287 posts)Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)I suspect he was (the Washington Post said he had died) a normal person trying to live his life. Yes, he was at the exclusive school, so his family may have had money, but I am guessing this is his 15 minutes of fame awarded posthumously. Someone may come forward and share but I have heard nothing yet.
No matter he didn't deserve what Romney is accused of doing to him. If it is true Romney should be ashamed and publicly apologize to his family, and all of America.
What is unbelievable is that there are right wing nuts out there who are praising Romney for doing this. The base is once again energized by bigotry and cruelty.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)empthy means because they have none. Here we all thought Mittens was a moderate and turns out he is just as cruel as the rest of the right wing.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The boy few at Cranbrook knew or remember was born in Chicago, grew up in South Bend, Ind., and had a hard time fitting in. He liked to wander and had a glorious sense of the absurd, according to his sister Betsy. When the chance to get out of Indiana presented itself, he jumped at it, and enrolled at Cranbrook. He never uttered a word about Mitt Romney or the haircut incident to his sisters. After Cranbrook asked him to leave, he finished high school, attended the University of the Seven Seas for two semesters, then graduated in 1970 from Vanderbilt, where he majored in English.
He came out as gay to his family and close friends and led a vagabond life, taking dressage lessons in England and touring with the Royal Lipizzaner Stallion riders. After an extreme fit of temper in front of his mother and sister at home in South Bend, he checked into the Menninger Clinic psychiatric hospital in Topeka, Kan. Later he received his embalmers license, worked as a chef aboard big freighters and fishing trawlers, and cooked for civilian contractors during the war in Bosnia and then, a decade later, in Iraq. His hair thinned as he aged, and in the winter of 2004 he returned to Seattle, the closest thing he had to a base. He died there of liver cancer that December.
He kept his hair blond until he died, said his sister Chris. He never stopped bleaching it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story_4.html
madmom
(9,681 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)maybe??
and maybe the parents of his tormentors threatened to cut off funding to the school?
madmom
(9,681 posts)smoking, but the richie rich gang was allowed to intimidate other kids for being different, with no reprisals.