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'Friends' is leaving Netflix — and fans are reeling

Calli Simmons, a 20-year-old college student from Tennessee, doesn't know what she'll watch come Wednesday.

Her TV habits have been automatic for so long: Pull up the Netflix app, watch three or four episodes of "Friends" each day, sleep and repeat - in between school and work, of course.

"It's been a regular part of my daily routine," she says proudly, noting that her mother was a devoted viewer of the popular series during its original broadcast run. "I never get tired of it."

But she's about to find herself on a break from that habit. On Wednesday, the sitcom's 236 episodes will no longer be available to stream in the U.S. on Netflix.

And Simmons, like others

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