is dead in french. that made the papers in michigan that george romney s son had been killed in an automobile accident. so my dad called sergeant shriver, u.s. ambassador to france, asked the ambassador if he could look into it and they sent a representative to the hospital i was in and sure enough i was alive. one of the passengers in the car, the wife of the leader of the mormon mission in france, she was killed. this had a big impact on mitt romney. when he returns home, romney is a changed person. now deeply committed to his family s religion, he attends the mormon church s brigham young university along with ann davies. mitt and ann marry and eventually move to boston where romney gets a difficult combined mba and law degree from harvard. the romneys set until massachusetts. and mitt serves in higher and higher official positions in the mormon church. first as a bishop and then as head of the boston state which is similar to a diocese.