Among the hundreds who attended a memorial service last Sunday for Erin at the Flanders Hotel in Ocean City, N.J., where she worked for years while in school, more than 20 Temple classmates, administrators, and professors spoke of her lionhearted presence, advocacy, and transformative personal friendship. You never saw so many self-declared best friends, including our youngest daughter, Molly. From first grade to middle and high school to college roommates, a series of voices testified to the power of her friendship and the confidence it created within them.