but as his partner on this amazing journey, i can tell you mitt romney was not handed success. he built it! [ cheers and applause ] i read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, let me tell you something. in the storybooks i read, there never were long, long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. [ laughter ] and those storybooks never seemed to have a chapter called ms or breast cancer. a storybook marriage? nope, not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. [ cheers and applause ] i know this good and decent man for what he is. he's warm and loving and patient. this is the man america needs! [ cheers and applause ] this is the man who will wake up