Mitt Romney drops bombshell from his past

Via ABC News' Michael Falcone, who got his hands on an interview with Mitt Romney in a forthcoming issue of People magazine:

"I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again."

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