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<\/a>Eliza Dushku<\/strong> was raised in the Mormon church<\/a>, and although she doesn\u2019t really consider herself a member any more she has some pretty interesting stories about her upbringing. (Fun fact: Eliza\u2019s mom is a well-known feminist and professor at Boston\u2019s Suffolk University, and one of her areas of expertise is the LDS Church<\/a> in America.) Eliza says that when she was a little girl, Mitt Romney<\/strong> was her bishop (a lay position) when she was growing up in Massachusetts and that he was her \u201cfirst crush<\/a>.\u201d She even went so far as to name one of her Ken dolls \u201cMitt.\u201d<\/p>\n