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     Among the revelers in Tampa was Attilio G. Cortella, an Italian exchange student who lived with Mitt Romney and his family for a year in 1959.

     Mr. Cortella reminisced to a New York Times reporter on the simple lives of his hosts: "It was such a big house. We could have made 10 houses out of it."

     The Romneys respected Mr. Cortella's Catholic faith, too: "George Romney, a Mormon, insisted that Mr. Cortella be driven to the local Catholic church every week for mass."

     "Did Mr. Cortella see presidential material back then? 'No, I did not,' he concedes."