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** Realizing in a talk how she can't accept this reality, Vinnie has to ask for [[GriefInduscedSplit a divorce]]. Lorna can only stare at him with her mind clearly showing she's finally lost what grip on reality she had.

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** Realizing in a talk how she can't accept this reality, Vinnie has to ask for [[GriefInduscedSplit [[GriefInducedSplit a divorce]]. Lorna can only stare at him with her mind clearly showing she's finally lost what grip on reality she had.
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** Realizing in a talk how she can't accept this reality, Vinnie has to ask for a divorce. Lorna can only stare at him with her mind clearly showing she's finally lost what grip on reality she had.

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** Realizing in a talk how she can't accept this reality, Vinnie has to ask for [[GriefInduscedSplit a divorce.divorce]]. Lorna can only stare at him with her mind clearly showing she's finally lost what grip on reality she had.
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* Aleida's look of horror watching Caputo's press conference, where he only says "a young woman" was killed. AdultFear in its purest form.

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* Aleida's look of horror watching Caputo's press conference, where he only says "a young woman" was killed. AdultFear in its purest form.



* Gloria's [[AdultFear worrying for Benny]] (her son) after learning he was assaulted and left in a coma. Thankfully by the end of the season, Gloria learns he's gonna be okay.

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* Gloria's [[AdultFear worrying for Benny]] Benny (her son) after learning he was assaulted and left in a coma. Thankfully by the end of the season, Gloria learns he's gonna be okay.
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* Abdullah's backstory - before her incarceration, she was HappilyMarried with a daughter and had a nice, if stressful, life. This stress leads her to convince her husband to [[{{Polyamory}} take on a second wife]] to help ease the burden, but as time went on, Alison grew resentful of the situation, feeling like her "sister wife" was stealing her family from her. Compounding the sadness is that this is juxtaposed with [[NotSoDifferent Sankey's own worries and anxieties]] that the woman she's letting her partner be with due to their open relationship arrangement is stealing him and their daughter away from her as well. The two then cross paths, both in tears over their situations, and angrily insult one another.

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* Abdullah's backstory - before her incarceration, she was HappilyMarried with a daughter and had a nice, if stressful, life. This stress leads her to convince her husband to [[{{Polyamory}} take on a second wife]] to help ease the burden, but as time went on, Alison grew resentful of the situation, feeling like her "sister wife" was stealing her family from her. Compounding the sadness is that this is juxtaposed with [[NotSoDifferent Sankey's own worries and anxieties]] anxieties that the woman she's letting her partner be with due to their open relationship arrangement is stealing him and their daughter away from her as well. The two then cross paths, both in tears over their situations, and angrily insult one another.
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*** The above is so bad that ''Fig'' is nearly in tears watching them. '''Fig'''.

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*** The above is so bad that ''Fig'' is nearly in tears watching them. '''Fig'''.'''[[IceQueen Fig]]'''.
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* Monica discovers the truth about Cindy via the letter Taystee wrote to her. She is angry and hurt at the same time. We see her yelling at Lillian, whom she called "Mom", and Cindy, whom she called her sister. Cindy is shocked and broken when she sees the letter. Lillian is angry at Cindy for ruining everything every time she shows up in their lives and having to make Lillian clean up the mess Cindy made. Thinking all she ever does is mess things up, Cindy decides to leave her home for good. Lillian is angry again and tries to convince Cindy to make things up with Monica, but Cindy refuses. Lillian then tells Cindy to never come back, which she does with tears in her eyes. This all happened after Cindy was trying to mend things with her family and after she got a job at a rehabilitation center for the elderly.


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** We also see why Shani left Egypt and came to America: to escape her homophobic family. We see her being confronted by her parents who told her her cousin saw her kissing a woman at a hotel bar. She denies that, but her mother pulls up her social media showing pictures of Shani kissing that same woman. She apologizes to her father, but that wasn't enough. Her father says that he would never kill her, but he would let other family members kill her for being a lesbian and ruining the family's name and reputation.
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* Although Piper and Larry's relationship ended long ago, it's clearly hard for Piper to see him happy and moved on with Polly. When she calls him on the phone, he no longer recognises her voice.
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*** The above is so bad that ''Fig'' is nearly in tears watching them. '''Fig'''.
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* Several in episode 11, God Bless America:
** Small children, unaccompanied and unrepresented in immigration court, with no understanding of what is happening and no possibility of defending themselves.
** Karla's heartbreaking phone call with her two small sons, where she desperately tries to explain to them that how much she loves them and that she will always fight to get back to them. Everyone is in floods of tears. Made even worse by the kids being in foster care and incomprehendingly asking their mother what is going on, why their cat and their toys were taken away, and how long it will be before they see her again. She can't even tell them that.
** Chaj Santos is pregnant as a result of rape, and for weeks or months has been held in a facility where nobody speaks a word of her native language and she can't even explain her situation to a doctor. She ends up experimenting with home-made abortifacients until Fig comes through for her.
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* Shani telling the story of her genital mutilation at age 11. Even in-universe, Nicky can barely hold back her tears.



** There doesn't seem to be much hope for Red or Lorna, who seem very much isolated in Florida. The fact that Litchfield no longer has a psych facility probably means they won't be getting the support they need, either.

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** There doesn't seem to be much hope for Red or Lorna, who seem very much isolated in Florida. The fact that Litchfield no longer has a psych facility probably means they won't be getting the support they need, either.either.
** Cindy is still living on the streets, and it will be a long road to earning the trust of her mother or daughter again.
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** Worse still, Pennsatucky was driven to her relapse and possibly-intentional overdose by despair, believing she had failed her GED exam because she had not been granted the special provisions she needed for dyslexia. We later discover that she had passed regardless. It turns out Suzanne, "the world expert" on Doggett, was right after all about her being smart despite her learning difficulties.
** Suzanne, the morning after Pennsatucky's death, placing an egg on her pillow and tearfully offering her "breakfast for dinner, for breakfast". (Pennsatucky's mother used to give her breakfast for dinner as a special treat when she had been well behaved.)
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* Throughout the season, Red keeps forgetting the most basic steps while cooking. Her fellow inmates assume this to be the result of lingering SanitySlippage from her time in solitary, and believe that she's tough enough to eventually get over it, but her condition only deteriorates as the season goes on. Then, in the third-last episode of the season, she's diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and while the doctor tells Nicky that they can treat Red and slow down its progression, the damage that's already been caused is irreversible, causing Nicky to utterly break down.
** A scene in the following episode gives the impression that despite the grim prognosis, Red might actually be rebounding after all, as she gives Nicky some sage advice over Morello's current situation -- and then asks her to get Norma, Gina (both of whom have been in Ohio since the riot), and Tricia (who died all the way back in the first season) to help get dinner ready, causing Nicky to break down again.
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* Pennsatucky dies of a drug overdose. Taystee finds her and holds her body as she cries for help. She even tells Tamika in the final episode how she has seen too many dead bodies (after Poussey).
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* Lorna's utter denial over her son's death. She not only tells the others he's still around but has set up a fake account to download pictures of someone else's child to pass off as hers.
** Realizing in a talk how she can't accept this reality, Vinnie has to ask for a divorce. Lorna can only stare at him with her mind clearly showing she's finally lost what grip on reality she had.

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* Maritza, stuck in [=ICE=] detention, learns that she isn't actually an American citizen. Then when she tries to help other detainees, [=ICE=] summarily deports her to a country she's never been to. In the end, she is last seen on a plane before literally fading away.



* Maritza, stuck in [=ICE=] detention, learns that she isn't actually an American citizen. Then when she tries to help other detainees, [=ICE=] summarily deports her to a country she's never been to. In the end, she is last seen on a plane before literally fading away.
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* Maritza, stuck in [=ICE=] detention, learns that she isn't actually an American citizen. Then when she tries to help other detainees, [=ICE=] summarily deports her to a country she's never been to. In the end, she is last seen on a plane before literally fading away.

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