How Piper Met Her Alex
Wait, let’s rewind a bit and explain how Piper met her Alex, or Cleary in real life. So back in 1993, Piper Kerman was a recent Smith College graduate and at age 24, fell in love with a group she called, “clique of impossibly stylish and cool lesbians in their mid-30s.” One woman in the group she calls Nora Jansen in the book, but in real life is Catherine Cleary Wolters or Alex Vause on Orange is the New Black. Cleary was involved in a drug-trafficking ring, and before she knew it, Piper found herself smuggling drugs. Ten years later when the Feds came for her, she was living with her boyfriend Larry in New York. It took six more years for her to hear if she would go to prison or not.
How Piper Met Her Alex
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