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Hailey Herrera was that friend you went to when you had a problem. So she turned that gift into a profession.

“She was Dear Abby,” her mother, Valerie Herrera, said. “Everyone wanted to come to her to ask her for advice. She said: ‘Mom, I am doing this all for free. I might as well do it for a career and get paid for it.’”

Ms. Herrera decided to become a therapist. She was working on a master’s degree in the marriage and family therapy program at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., when she died on April 7 at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. She was 25.