“With tears of joy and non-stop hugs and kisses, I got to live my fairytale and say hello again to the horse that changed my life forever,” Evan Coluccio wrote in an emotional Facebook post on June 2.

The horse, Batman, had been Coluccio’s junior jumper, and after years living apart, the pair were finally reunited when Batman returned to his “forever home” with Coluccio at his Middleburg, Va. farm.