Then Priscilla remembered that it had been on Tuesday, June 11, around 1:45 in the afternoon when the Ohio Senate had conducted final deliberations on the SAD Bill, officially called Senate Bill 71. An atmosphere of anxiety permeated the chamber. Daniel P. Callahan and two of his colleagues had already withstood a tidal wave of opposition from the thirty other senators. In fact, it was widely believed that the bill was dead on arrival, but the senator had heard that type of hyperbole before—the reality of politics, Ohio politics.
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Priscilla’s recollections became increasingly difficult; the closer the events led up to her wedding day, the less she wanted to remember them. So her mind drifted from one minor incident to another, such as the time that she and Julia finalized the menu
