The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
: {" A6 P0 [. X) g   This enables you at 85 years old
1 a. u' |6 I, S) C   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
& T! a8 g" n% b7 }( j( B& @, p   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
    five miles a day when he was 60.
$ e: \5 O+ W) k% g% X0 D    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
   I like long walks,
, {  [1 H$ \3 x+ ~/ m! m    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
  
- H+ l6 T; I' y, H# U) C   The only reason I would take up walking
% K- B. s) N, h5 S8 b" R: A  {0 [3 Q    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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, [6 }6 I- ^- {- U, N( x    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
   I joined a health club last year,
  i& s- H, Z0 @8 e+ `    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
  
0 C  Y9 {1 O) T  H% ]' [: t   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
1 Q( i9 {% t1 }1 N: ]0 j    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
& O( U. N8 X$ C9 \' u7 _# J; K   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

/ I" l2 w( ]8 _6 P# Q4 Q6 [# s    The advantage of exercising every day
6 G: X8 K4 L7 ?- ]5 P3 G( m  &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,
' }' k* Y! ?6 [6 S# V# r) T7 @  start with a small country.
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5 Z3 u6 a% h* ^/ b   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
, i1 ], I8 R7 \" ^    just getting over the hill.
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8 f3 @3 x) P5 D+ H% l  We all get heavier as we get older,
1 g. |5 v( f$ H& M/ w    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
, B7 o# }; d" @1 d7 M7 Q" T, l) r    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
   AND

    Every time I start thinking too much
1 F. V. Z6 a- G! |, K# }- ?     about how I look,
4 ^: w$ c" P* Q) ?- O9 a+ _( }    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.