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Orange Is the New Black: Catching Up With the Characters

Elaine G. Flores

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Top row: Piper (played by Taylor Schilling); Crazy Eyes (Uzo Aduba); Sophia (Laverne Cox). Bottom row: Taystee (Danielle Brooks); Poussey (Samira Wiley); Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore). All images: Netflix.

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Vee (Lorraine Toussaint), right, had regular beef with Latina leader Gloria (Selenis Leyva) in season 2. (Netflix) — Vee (Lorraine Toussaint), right, had regular beef with Latina leader Gloria (Selenis Leyva) in season 2. (Netflix)

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Elaine G. Flores is a New York writer, editor and bon vivant. She’s a hard-core shipper and excommunicated soap opera reviewer. Her fictional dinner-party guests include Omar Little, Buffy Summers, Abigail Mills and Ichabod Crane. You can visit her site, TV Recappers Delight.

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