A life partner, children and good friends are all recommended if you aim to live to 100.

如果你的目标是活到100岁，你需要生活伴侣、孩子和好朋友。

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Best friends are the foundation of my life.

良友们是我生活的基础。

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There are some things that are almost impossible to say to our close friends especially if we want them to be our friends for life.

有些话几乎是不可能对我们亲密的朋友说的，尤其是当我们想让他们成为我们永远的朋友的时候。

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I think, well, most of my friends online who I interact with online are people who I know through real life, I guess.

我想，我在网上联系的大多数人都是我在现实生活了解的人，

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But today Sipho and his friends are more intent on real life than on updating their cyber profiles.

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So for the older teenagers, if they are introduced to alcohol later in life via friends, away from adult supervision, they are also more likely to drink to excess.

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But fundamentally, the problem with all these patterns is the clash between trying to work at night, when everyone else including family and friends are not, while having a "normal" life in between researchers say.

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