Reunited and it feels so good.

Meet Ndume the elephant.

Here he is in 1989, being cared for at a wildlife trust near Kenya's Imenti Forest.

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When he was just 3 months old, Ndume was knocked unconscious by tribesmen armed with sticks and machetes, trying to protecting their crops. His mother died.

"He wakes up in an orphanage, and screams for his mother," one account read. "Ripped from his friends, his family, his mother, he has nightmares for months."

He was being cared for at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The center has raised close to 200 orphan elephants, and is also responsible for protecting wild elephants, executive director Angela Sheldrick told BuzzFeed News.

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Joseph Sauni, the trust's head keeper in the southern sector of Tsavo East National Park, oversaw Ndume's rehab.

As he grew up and gained strength, Ndume started roaming around more and meeting other elephants, who sometimes led him into trouble.

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He came back to visit once in a while, though one had seen him since 2007. Sauni and the others didn't know how he was faring, or even whether he was still alive.

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