Then I found this quote.
O’Donnell, 41, a New Jersey native who has lived in Delaware for roughly a half-dozen years and spent the 1990s helping run a sexual morality movement aimed at fellow GenXers, is largely unknown statewide, in spite of other Senate runs.
O’Donnell, an avid cook, was disappointed that she had not married and had children, Horta said. “That is one thing she had hoped for in her life, but again because of her faith she felt, ‘Whatever God has for me, I will accept.’”
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If baking is her sublimation, I'll bet she's a hell of a baker.