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Photo: A woman crosses a river on a bamboo pole as she performs during a dragon boat competition in Huishui county, Guizhou province.

Bilingual: High-waisted jeans are back in, and people still drink a lot of coffee - but that's pretty much all our adult lives have in common with the poker-playing, apartment-swapping lives of the characters on Friends. It's been 10 years since the series finale aired, and for those of us who spent hour upon hour watching the show, it's still a bummer that our lives aren't exactly like those of Rachel, Monica, Ross, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey.