Quick: What do Ozzy Osbourne and Mitt Romney have in common?

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Patients work out at Holy Name Medical Center's MS Center.

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.

Both are part of the 1 percent.

But beyond that, each has a family member diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

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.

"I was just angry and frustrated and kept thinking, 'Why now?'x'' he told People magazine.

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"

Her husband's steadfastness through her illnesses, she implied, provided ample evidence to voters that "this man will not let us down."

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