title: Memories Vision a Novel
author:  Ken Coleman 
description: Ken Coleman is an African American writer originally from Washington D. C. currently residing in North Carolina.
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  For Uncle John “Murphy” Kirkham
  
  
  
  
  
  Thank you for the inspiration and for everything else over the years
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### ONE YEAR AGO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Tuesday 1 September
  
  
  He had no final memory of her. Only a single image. One last moment, trapped
  in an interminable loop, playing over and over in his mind. There, every time
  he closed his eyes,
  
  
  mocking him.
  
  
  Tim Johnson was beginning to accept that there was nothing else about his
  daughter he would ever remember.
  
  
  People will tell you that love at first sight doesn’t exist. That it takes
  time to feel all the emotions that make up the L word. Comfort, familiarity,
  yearning. They don’t just
  
  
  appear overnight.
  
  
  Those people are wrong.
  
  
  Have a child and feel that bolt of lightning when you hold them for the first
  time. A little face looking up at you, completely at your m