The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
  ~# u' N- E9 _; c   This enables you at 85 years old
, e: M0 r7 ^5 f8 f" P/ J7 t- c   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
$ i/ u: B& W- G" k' p, B   home at $7000 per month.

    My grandpa started walking
- N: y' ?+ p9 V' v    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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5 V* w( n( V& z) u% p   I like long walks,
9 n# O1 u7 ?2 A7 Z    especially when they are taken
* p$ Y) d- k, n3 D& @    by people who annoy me.
  
1 H0 o! D  h. u& d4 j5 c( ~   The only reason I would take up walking
" C. q$ J% ]; X5 |+ S    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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( x4 |  f+ y% @7 K) Y6 i2 b4 x" h    I have to walk early in the morning,
/ ^( f& u* K, b; D# j' Z! j! Y    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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   I joined a health club last year,
0 T' {( A0 @: R5 K2 ^    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
  
  ^6 L+ X/ N: G: X# b   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
   I do have flabby thighs,
% |" S% W2 z7 K& l- t+ }6 \    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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    The advantage of exercising every day
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7 Q/ Z- ]  S! t- Z6 o* ]7 ^. L    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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5 g+ \& B/ w3 M   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
( B* [5 [! A9 {$ B  start with a small country.
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   I know I got a lot of exercise
9 h$ r& [) Q( z! ^    the last few years,......
% Z: h0 V  Z- S& g: [# a    just getting over the hill.

3 O5 _( P9 N0 D! L" `) G' i7 h  We all get heavier as we get older,
& U. e' f( H7 n& x# ?6 _    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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8 I) v( }$ A9 k" b    Every time I start thinking too much
4 D1 p( m& f+ R& ^. j1 w     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
; E) l" H$ g/ L8 ]   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.