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Lorraine Lee: Too Happy at Work 

In the end, it was all of those heart-stopping miseries with the elevators at 2 World Trade Center that prompted Joan Greene to tell her daughter, Lorraine Lee, "to leave that building, to get a job somewhere else," Mrs. Greene said. . .

And since Ms. Lee, 37, regularly went out to the plaza for a smoke, it was annoying to spend all that time taking the elevator down from her office on the 101st floor.

But Ms. Lee would not listen to her mother because she loved her job as an administrative assistant at Aon Consulting, even though she traveled each day from Eltingville, Staten Island. And it was also true that Ms. Lee had quit smoking for eight months before the terrorist attack, and did not need to make all those trips to the plaza anymore. "She loved the people there," Mrs. Greene said. [This graph only]

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