Five guys take the same photo for 40 years
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Five friends have gathered every five years for four decades to pose the same way for a photo at the same California lake -- and the latest celebrated photo for 2022 is now out.
Copco Lake, California (CNN) — Five friends' celebrated photo taken every five years at the same California lake is out for the world to see despite one man's recent cancer scare.
They took photo No. 9 on Wednesday, 40 years after they shot the first in 1982 at a prefabricated cabin at Copco Lake along the California-Oregon border. Their tradition went viral 10 years ago -- and again in 2017 -- when CNN.com published their story and photos.
Some of the guys openly feared it could be a photo of four friends this year instead of the five first pictured as teenagers.
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