The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
2 t3 k" Z: g9 }1 {4 ?   This enables you at 85 years old
   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
   home at $7000 per month.
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/ ]/ y$ D3 G8 R" s  f( g# c% s    My grandpa started walking
. C8 X5 D" _0 E$ [    five miles a day when he was 60.
( n" `9 X2 y7 G/ [. n1 m    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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  |. x0 J1 I: P  i' g! ~3 A   I like long walks,
. Y  {$ g& C7 w( t4 s    especially when they are taken
1 G& o# X; i# d; m  q: n- }% W4 R$ r    by people who annoy me.
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   The only reason I would take up walking
7 G5 w: t0 k% G. U: _8 l    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
3 }0 h" n0 F5 u2 H    I have to walk early in the morning,
' R3 |; S) E) n3 v6 h6 k+ l    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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) d' i/ T3 p0 @9 I2 y0 S   I joined a health club last year,
6 p( R; O0 G7 T" [# D    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
/ b5 v: O* y+ |( `    Apparently you have to go there.
  
- J8 o! |' O' A# ~: j# A   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
; d0 m, Z3 }7 w  K/ ~5 A    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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! w6 G* ~7 e" n8 j* B   I do have flabby thighs,
6 C9 u- _% S7 Q5 f    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

% x$ G& Z* x2 T  A" i    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
  ]4 K! Y( n4 k- u6 ]7 Y    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
) t5 d" p  v0 A# ~, l. G   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
0 u: O$ `& P- A  start with a small country.
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   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.

: B0 Z+ E. d& l" |  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
' f) z9 v, a2 E8 U4 ]8 ?% U    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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0 ]8 V2 M# d$ d9 {( \7 s3 j: R    Every time I start thinking too much
, L# p) d1 c+ P4 a, s* V$ z     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
4 ^: {% F! N9 G8 o3 [9 k   and by the time I leave,
' d1 r6 T* e8 q/ y# G, n    I look just fine.