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Mitt Romney focuses on family, not gay marriage, in draft of Liberty speech

By Matt Viser

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 11, 2012

Mitt Romney on Saturday is giving the commencement address at the conservative Liberty University, offering him a chance to woo social and religious conservatives who have long been skeptical of him. “I’m not sure quite why, but lately I’ve found myself thinking about life in four-year stretches,” he plans to say, according to several excerpts released by the Romney campaign this morning. Romney advisers said on Thursday that Romney was unlikely to dwell on the gay marriage debate

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