PRESS RELEASE FROM GRATEFUL STEPS:
Grateful Steps Publishing House is pleased to announce the arrival of a new book by Asheville author Wayne G Cox. London to Kabul, the journey that led me to her is a look at the Middle East when it was a place young people could visit, commune with other travelers and spread messages of good will. The author describes country by country the places he visited with the Children of God in the 1970s. Scenes, food, visa policies, relationships and imprisonment for passing out literature are some of the topics included.
The greatest appeal of the book is the romance between the author and a woman he identifies as The One. That part of this true account rivals the classic love stories of literature. Kenny Loggins gave permission for Wayne Cox to use in the book the entire lyrics of his song “This is It.”
From the book:
When Wayne walked in stoned to the Warren Stanley shoe store in Orlando, Florida, one December day of 1971, he had no idea it would lead him halfway around the world to Afghanistan. Inside the store, a girl from a group called the Children of God approached him and invited him to join them. Needing more than the “peace and love” of the hippie movement of the 1960s and feeling they were in a spiritual void, Wayne and his brother joined the group, a group that gave them a purpose for living.Many great countries later, Wayne looked into the eyes of an Arab girl, a girl who melted him and loved him like no other. Soon the love between them was all that mattered. Not their backgrounds, not their nationalities, not their religions.
Wayne Cox left the Children of God when he returned to America in 1978. He sold real estate in Florida, landscaped in Kuwait and worked as an avionics technician on private and commercial aircraft. He and his wife and children live in North Carolina.
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