On Saturday, March 4, 2000 at 7:00:00 PM UTC+11, Jen wrote:

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TOGETHER AT LAST... YOKO, HER SON AND HER 'LOST' DAUGHTER
SEAN MEETS HALF-SISTER FOR FIRST TIME AS SHE'S REUNITED WITH MOTHER AFTER 29 YEARS
THIS is the moment Yoko Ono hardly dared to dream about...the day she could hug both her children at once.

It had been 29 years since she last saw her daughter Kyoko, who was born before she met John Lennon.

But now Yoko, Kyoko and Sean, her 24-year-old son by John, can be a family for the first time.

The reunion came out of the blue when Kyoko, 37, phoned Yoko at her
apartment in the Dakota building, New York, where John was shot dead in
front of her in 1980.

It brought to an end a rift that Yoko feared might never be healed.

Kyoko was the daughter from Yoko's early marriage to British film-maker Tony Cox.

The relationship ended after she met John in the 1960s and Kyoko stayed with her father.

At first, Yoko and Tony remained friends, but relations then soured and mother and child had not met since 1971.

The rift came when Tony and his second wife Melinda were living in Majorca, studying mysticism with Indian guru Maharashi Yogi.

Tony accused Yoko of abducting their daughter from his hotel after she and John took her out for three hours.

John and Yoko were arrested and briefly questioned by Spanish police after the incident, but were not charged.

Tony and Kyoko then dropped out of sight when he joined a cult American religious group called The Church Of The Living Word.

Kyoko was given the assumed name of Ruth Holman and stayed with the sect in Iowa and California.

Her disappearance caused an international sensation. John and Yoko launched
a worldwide hunt for her but without success.

In the mid-1980s, Yoko published an open letter to Kyoko which said: "All these years, there has not been one day I have not missed you.

"If you ever wish to get in touch with me, know that I love you deeply and would be very happy to hear from you."

For reasons she refuses to talk about, Kyoko has waited until now to make
her 66-year-old mother's dream come true - but her reluctance to become involved in Yoko's fame may be the key.

Despite this, Kyoko has accompanied her mother to restaurants, exhibitions and art galleries in New York.

Yoko has now asked her to share her Dakota apartment as the pair begin to catch up on all the lost years.

A friend of Yoko said last night: "The reunion has made Yoko so happy. She dreamed of this happening for so long."

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