Ms. Walton — You don’t know me. I worked at Vaughn Enterprises for nine years, in logistics coordination, and I was in the building the morning the exchange suspended trading.

I’m not writing to make you feel bad. I read a profile of you in a magazine at my sister’s house and it said you were a champion of financial transparency and I sat with that for about four months before I wrote this.

I want to ask you one question and I’ll accept any answer including no answer. Did anyone at any point consider what would happen to the four hundred and six of us?

Sincerely, Odalys Ferrante.

I read it eleven times.

Then I did the thing I am good at, which is find out. It took Ronald’s office three weeks.