The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
9 R! k( @: m. `/ t* n( O% m   This enables you at 85 years old
+ c. R3 U7 u/ i$ j/ E8 H, X6 |0 x# h   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
   home at $7000 per month.

5 Z0 f. t8 }/ D# E) s- I" m    My grandpa started walking
    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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% b$ ^3 O; W. C0 x   I like long walks,
* w* x9 q7 X/ k  n& G7 a    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
  
* v' M1 a' f5 c   The only reason I would take up walking
    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
    I have to walk early in the morning,
( c/ \& s( Y% C: B4 Y; Q9 y    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
: f! \3 Y9 b4 P. U: t4 J% y- L9 ]   I joined a health club last year,
7 k; I' _9 X7 ?: x    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
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   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
9 Z/ H9 F7 n/ J6 K    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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5 g3 c* @1 ~& s( _3 \    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
/ ^5 S! L7 J! J. i3 D9 g  start with a small country.
   
1 f* G, X& M8 p3 Q: ]3 P   I know I got a lot of exercise
+ t  R1 r2 \  |* u9 P    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.

  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
/ J7 y+ M5 r6 y1 z    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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9 U2 x) J! O9 H) h4 @) A& d5 v   AND

    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
+ M; L7 v! n% a) n* F/ b' c* H    I just find a Happy Hour
4 V  F! r: A; ], u- M$ e2 B9 M" z/ X   and by the time I leave,
) \9 A" M# ?+ c4 J" P" `% V& x9 F    I look just fine.