The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
/ ^; o8 x- l: v! Z8 R  j   This enables you at 85 years old
% s2 E% k3 [5 G' [0 v# S   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
   home at $7000 per month.

) _( @% I0 G; w    My grandpa started walking
. ?' L4 ^* s+ s3 g- ~    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
1 R1 F, K8 P" x& A- |! Z( m$ @    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
2 W2 a3 }: d+ E* J    by people who annoy me.
  
" l( C# N' l& w3 C. x   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,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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/ a( X- s. m; Z8 D1 k4 b- ?   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
4 Y* H: Q2 x4 [# @0 @% y+ `    Apparently you have to go there.
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   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
5 }/ S$ a# @8 l2 i    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
   I do have flabby thighs,
. F/ Y5 Y' \( k; ]    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

5 V" R  U/ w! ?    The advantage of exercising every day
. c3 u/ j3 d+ H/ ~; l# W  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
! Z- l% a! T9 q  d+ S    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
$ @6 h; w" M9 N  start with a small country.
   
' X' @) k2 y  d1 p, `   I know I got a lot of exercise
- J. u. P4 g0 V! y4 V4 [    the last few years,......
# Q$ F4 f% D: s) W1 N8 r    just getting over the hill.

  We all get heavier as we get older,
2 p* z6 @0 C4 L/ J    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
& Z* N" `( h3 c) L; \4 P- P    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
   AND
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    Every time I start thinking too much
5 w1 B! A( P, ]- _% Q9 B     about how I look,
5 ^- T/ {( G0 l    I just find a Happy Hour
: {( X% y& _! Q   and by the time I leave,
# |; \$ A; G8 F8 m5 s7 K! \    I look just fine.