How can my replacement gain access to all the files on my work computer

I am retiring from my place of employment after 14 years on the job--my choice as I've reached retirement age. I've been a Mac guy for over 5 years now and my replacment is inheriting my computer, a Mac Pro with a 2TB hard drive I added a couple of years ago when I outgrew the original 750GB drive (which is still installed). I use Mail which has probably 100,000 stored messages, and all of my documents...tons of them. My replacement needs to take over the machine and "make it hers" but she will still need to have access to all my "stuff" to continue in the position...all my mail, calendar, address book, and documents for MS Office 2011, Adobe CS programs, etc.
I went to the users part of system preferences today and added her as a new identity and as an administrator, but it gives here a "virgin" finder, without all the additions I had put in the sidebar of my finder, etc. In fact it defaulted to the original "Macintosh HD" which I had nearly filled until I added the second hard drive, the one that is 2TB in size.
Is there a way to configure the Mac Pro (it uses Lion and is too old to upgrade to Mountail Lion) so that she can gain access to all of my "stuff"?
Rock

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