Marwan Chebaro didn’t get to buy his daughter a car.

He didn’t get to see her off to college, walk her down the aisle, or many of the milestones fathers dream of hitting.

Nour had congenital heart disease and developmental delays. She died in 2018 at the age of 29, but, like her name’s meaning in Arabic, she was full of light.

“She loved to be around people, engage with people, even though she was very limited,” Chebaro said. “If she were healthy, normal, she would be creating her own legacy. But she couldn’t.”

So, all the money that would’ve gone into a wedding venue or a new set of wheels has gone into this: a colorful new restaurant along 39th Street in Kansas City.

Chebaro sat at a table inside Nour’s on Wednesday, tilting the wide-brimmed hat on his head, and looked around.

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