The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
  V; ?2 N8 T% @) U/ _9 m; G   This enables you at 85 years old
   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
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0 T+ L/ Y( S: ~+ `    My grandpa started walking
+ A1 K& d$ r0 e; w  d    five miles a day when he was 60.
! X' \6 C$ N. N+ v4 v    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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* A5 D$ t4 y+ k# l  M" n4 D% l' c   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
& k9 Z- }( E) s: i1 e( A; Q    by people who annoy me.
  
% ~/ ]1 z: R3 \: L   The only reason I would take up walking
: c. X) W5 }0 \) T    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
0 \  F# m$ ^( k/ F6 o( r4 v    Haven't lost a pound.
  }/ o. A2 F! Z- C1 [    Apparently you have to go there.
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   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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* u& I( V6 `4 C: R% h$ j  D# w4 h   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

    The advantage of exercising every day
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    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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3 }' I- j/ v( y+ [+ |$ P. C   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
  start with a small country.
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   I know I got a lot of exercise
  n" h! C7 Z! {    the last few years,......
* K- F# E) C7 D* \% w    just getting over the hill.

  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
! b3 _8 f4 {9 z+ X    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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   AND
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$ b, v: ]" f9 @; J# d% c    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
' \4 b& c" W3 z8 I" b1 ?    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.