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After her parents divorced, her father Anthony Cox remarried. In 1971 her father abducted the then 8 year old Kyoko and followed her new stepmother in a cult called "The Walk." Cox left the group with Kyoko in 1977, becoming fundamentalist Christians. After leaving the cult, as a part of their new found Christian faith, they helped produce a film documentary exposing the cult. Continuing to live an underground existence, Kyoko was given the new name Rosemary.

She would not see or communicate with her mother again for 23 years. "It was very painful losing my mom," Kyoko says, "but I love my dad too." Fearing that he would be prosecuted for kidnapping, Cox kept on the move, Kyoko says, changing names (she went through nine) and addresses constantly. "Mom says [now] that she wouldn't have put him in jail," Kyoko says, "but as a child, I didn't know what was going to happen. I was protective."

According to one report, Kyoko Chan Cox reunited with Yoko Ono and met her half-brother, Sean Lennon, for the first time in 1997. She is the mother of 2 children. Married since 1992 to a successful lawyer, Kyoko contacted her mother in 1994, after deciding to have children of her own. "When Kyoko appeared finally, I was totally in shock," Ono says. "It felt like the part of me that was missing came back."

While Ono and Lennon courted and married in 1969, Kyoko spent most of her time with her father and visited with her mother and famous stepfather. Although Kyoko says Lennon was always "nice to me," she describes him as "this consuming force. He wanted all of my mom, and there wasn't a lot of her left for me. My dad had a lot of problems, but I was his only kid."

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