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People Who Went To Penn: Mr. Piper Chapman a.k.a. Larry Smith

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Not joke day, people. On Wednesdays, we wear orange, and UTB has a PSA: the real-life Larry from "Orange Is The New Black" went to Penn!

As ashamed as we are that we only now made this connection, it's an honor to hold Piper's hubby amongst our alumni. The felon-turned-author Piper Kerman, who consults for the flawless 12-time-Emmy-nominated (!) Netflix series based on her memoir, is IRL still married to Larry. And unlike his Bloom counterpart on "OITNB," Smith is an accomplished journalist and is founder and editor of the online SMITH Magazine.

Smith also created the "Six Word Memoirs" project. His wife's Twitter bio is hers: "In and out of hot water." That's for sure, dandelion.

Piper may have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened and called Taylor Swift, but now we know she's a Quaker's (non-prison) wife!

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