He was killed on September 10, shot while doing what he’d built his life around: speaking, debating, challenging, believing. But in the days that followed, it wasn’t a fiery stage clip that defined Charlie Kirk’s legacy. It was a quiet moment at a small table in New York City, where a dad decided to leave his daughter something priceless — the beginning of their family’s story, in his own words.

In Erika’s video, Charlie doesn’t talk about politics or fame. He talks about seeing a woman who was “beautiful and smart and elegant and Christ-like,” and realizing a job interview had just become the rest of his life. Now that tender “story time” has become a lifeline — for a widow clinging to memories, for two children who will grow up on stories instead of new moments, and for countless strangers reminded that, beneath the headlines, love is the only legacy that endures.