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I grew up homeschooled in a conservative Christian household. Church twice a week, scripture every day, and prayer before dinner was my norm. I was the kid wearing the weird dresses that she made herself and not fitting in very well with the other kids from church. Nowadays I’m more adept at interacting with people who have different backgrounds and lifestyles, but I’m still the odd one out most of the time. I’ve been called “super religious,” “goody-two-shoes,” “prude,” and

September 10, 2025, hit me hard. Like many Americans, I still haven’t recovered. I never met Charlie Kirk, and I wasn’t in the habit of listening to him regularly, but I knew who he was and what he stood for. I think I probably started listening to his stuff when I was eighteen or so. I was forming my own political opinions, and he was in the group of debaters that I came to respect. I was also a young person receiving the side-eye from others for choosing not to go to colleg