<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (June 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (June 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Chapman is a 31 - year - old WASP who is sentenced to 15 months in prison for carrying a bag of drug - money ($50,000) to Belgium for her girlfriend, Alex . Prior to prison, Chapman owned an artisanal bath soap business in Brooklyn . She comes from a wealthy family, and was a debutante as a teenager . She is originally from Connecticut . Chapman is bisexual, and in college was in a relationship with Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), a drug smuggler. 10 years prior to the series' beginning, she carried drug money from Colombia to Belgium with Vause . Eventually, Chapman grew disenchanted with Vause's lifestyle and broke up with her . She then began dating Larry Bloom (Jason Biggs), to whom she got engaged . </P> <P> Piper is one of very few emphatically atheist inmates and one of few such characters on US television . She responds to a request that she baptise herself by saying that she cannot pretend to believe in a god, saying that while it might make her happier if she believed in a religion, she "needs it to be true", and instead looks to science to explain the world . In another episode, when confronted on the subject again, she clarifies that "I've always thought agnostic was a sort of cop - out...If I had to label it I'd say that I'm a secular humanist ." </P>

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