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A Wild Reunion
The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  March 13, 2009
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John and Ace reunited with Christian one last time.
In 1972, a year after the now-famous hug, John and Ace returned to Kenya to see Christian for one last time. "We spent nine days with him. He was much bigger and much more independent, and we were nearly superfluous to his life," Ace says. "But that was the whole point of it, to return to the wild." 





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