The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
% @/ v4 n+ \' f   This enables you at 85 years old
7 g4 c8 D7 Z! t! I$ h: O   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
    five miles a day when he was 60.
! }% k. c, D7 a3 j4 }* Y* K. r    Now he's 97 years old
  y6 `7 P# r: w    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
* F: V6 j& z2 x6 D) I    by people who annoy me.
  
" z$ ?; C( d; C7 K   The only reason I would take up walking
  U# f3 T( r8 E7 X- N+ m    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
    I have to walk early in the morning,
4 b* s! F, r- q    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
4 c* f; i+ [! M) _  u3 g7 O   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
5 i& K  u/ n9 U! R; f    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
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- R9 k" [- k& g   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
" ]2 z0 ]' z2 v8 U* T- Y. ?   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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7 E- z. b# ~/ t+ @' f( a    The advantage of exercising every day
7 O- W- i# F) _9 y  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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- `  O" M/ w# j0 U/ g  R& o" M: A   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
4 q/ ?  q1 y: l6 _: L  E- i  start with a small country.
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   I know I got a lot of exercise
0 k9 Y* l7 y' @  N    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.
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2 Y" A" ?* l/ G& @/ ]2 w  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
+ O8 O7 x) i2 I8 l& L5 h2 O    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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    Every time I start thinking too much
9 N& }' E8 E+ {) x- p     about how I look,
+ f8 O9 f4 P9 Q4 L6 Q1 t. j) ^    I just find a Happy Hour
# [* Z: k( X% w5 _   and by the time I leave,
8 T- M8 Q$ e! z3 Q    I look just fine.