The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
   This enables you at 85 years old
   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
6 H$ q2 U" Q0 D+ O   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
" G9 ~. x( T8 p2 k    five miles a day when he was 60.
0 O0 R  |3 R1 n    Now he's 97 years old
& h+ I2 a- `. d) ?    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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% a4 V. f9 U7 B* n$ t. }   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
# f7 K: G' N$ @6 q5 A    by people who annoy me.
  
1 a: ?( Y2 l" m' w, n   The only reason I would take up walking
' I- |) x- G/ T( q0 W5 @    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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8 Q, @) b3 @* j; }; z    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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. j9 f) w" m0 Z7 w1 h   I joined a health club last year,
9 m9 H+ j6 l- c; E+ f$ G    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
    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..
  
$ n4 _. D5 f' S; z   I do have flabby thighs,
. E5 t7 G+ U* J    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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    The advantage of exercising every day
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0 ^. E0 P3 D3 S/ s. n5 h1 [    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
1 T" i; J* @; t- X* K8 e   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
/ ~* x$ T4 d6 H/ W' H' g' z* |  start with a small country.
   
* h8 R% q/ ~4 Q9 v   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
. X( c8 m8 ^$ _$ F    just getting over the hill.

8 y% ]7 ^, `$ h$ a1 z4 m  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
  L) X# E+ s& p" g9 G4 U. p# B   AND
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6 q+ ~& u9 K5 A( Y$ I9 x0 X6 q    Every time I start thinking too much
) i9 A# y- N# y5 q, ?. N& ]     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
; U. W3 e* ?. h8 F, W   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.