Quick: What do Ozzy Osbourne and Mitt Romney have in common? <\/p>\n
DON SMITH\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER <\/p>\n
Patients work out at Holy Name Medical Center's MS Center. <\/p>\n
The former is a rocker who once bit the head off a bat and starred in his own reality television series, while the latter was a titan of Bain Capital and now Republican candidate for president. <\/p>\n
Both are part of the 1 percent. <\/p>\n
But beyond that, each has a family member diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. <\/p>\n
For Ozzy, it's son Jack Osbourne, 26, who learned in June that he has MS after partial blindness in his right eye led him to seek a doctor's care. Word of the diagnosis came two weeks after his fiance, Lisa Stelly, gave birth to their daughter. <\/p>\n
\"I was just angry and frustrated and kept thinking, 'Why now?'x'' he told People magazine. <\/p>\n
For Mitt, it's wife Ann Romney, 63, whose Republican National Convention speech, aimed at humanizing the candidate, scoffed at the notion that theirs is a \"storybook marriage.\" Those storybooks, she said, \"never seemed to have chapters called 'MS' or 'Breast Cancer.'x\" <\/p>\n
Her husband's steadfastness through her illnesses, she implied, provided ample evidence to voters that \"this man will not let us down.\" <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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