The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
+ O* C, t0 v+ p$ j   This enables you at 85 years old
* ]: @0 s& M: }6 Y5 h9 ^   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
6 x% ^  O5 m1 r4 w   home at $7000 per month.

: e  \* L) g6 Q7 h% k3 ^" B8 `    My grandpa started walking
2 L& G% I' n$ X- M; C* \    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
9 Q0 f# V" ~* \    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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) ]& V2 r/ k3 l/ X   The only reason I would take up walking
    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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" @8 S& J8 y5 w5 N    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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4 o& L: P% R! [2 K  h1 e- E# ]0 `   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
7 }) d- ~1 D- o; @; R4 b    Haven't lost a pound.
  g6 t+ f) ^1 @6 _    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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   I do have flabby thighs,
, ?! {& v. q7 o" k' F    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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/ B# C- [: X3 i/ E    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
8 z* m7 Q+ A  q/ R& H7 J8 W! ^   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
  start with a small country.
   
   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
) I4 f( O) u8 U' a- W    just getting over the hill.
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; u; y0 a5 k* L' W9 [" P) d  We all get heavier as we get older,
) j, W! I. G* S! h/ E    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
. w% o/ \3 }2 s- F8 r2 R& ]    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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# y1 F# x; T2 A0 B: c' L   AND
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, v9 f0 Y$ L# b9 B+ s1 d4 b; Q    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
" O, N, V7 O0 s- a: y4 V   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.