Piper Kerman Timeline & Summary

In 1993, Piper helps Nora Jansen smuggle drug money in Europe.
She quits the drug trade, meets Larry, and moves to New York.
The drug life catches up to her, though, and she's indicted on charges of money laundering and drug smuggling.
She pleads guilty to avoid the maximum sentence and goes to prison in 2004.
Jail is pretty much boring and uneventful.
Piper makes some friends, yells at someone about lettuce, but otherwise proceeds through jail life without incident.
As she's about to be released, she's summoned to testify against a drug dealer in Chicago.
She hops a flight on ConAir (where's John Malkovich?) and ends up in the same cell as Nora, who got her into this mess in the first place.
They don't kiss, but they do make up, at least while they're in the same close quarters.
Piper is eventually released from prison in Chicago. Larry comes to get her, and takes her home to New York to have pizza.