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Human-Stories

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Life During the Collapse

Four emails from Enron's final weeks that have nothing to do with fraud and everything to do with being human while the building falls down.

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The Good Ones

Before the fraud, before the hearings, before the shredding -- there were people who mentored junior staff, thanked their bosses, and held each other up as the building came down. The kindness is what makes the rest of it unbearable.

The True Believers

As Enron collapsed in late 2001, a handful of employees wrote to Ken Lay not to rage or demand severance, but to say thank you. Their letters are the saddest documents in the archive.