She can't help how she was raised. Some of my best girlfriends today grew up in lily White neighborhoods and hadn't had a Black friend until college, but now they love to get ratchet with the best of them.

Once I thought I heard a funny noise behind me on a 4 or 5 and turned to see a looks normal/acts crazy woman cradling and petting a pigeon. My kids were with me and started humming "Eleanor Rigby". "all the lonely people, where do they take their pigeons"

You may also want to check out a little piece on why OITNB is so genuine by my friend Joe who was - no kidding - the FBI's most wanted bank robber in the 90s. Writing helped to rehab him while he was in prison and now he spends most of his time helping current inmates the same way. He first connected with Piper when…