The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
* D  j- W; U  m' n: h   This enables you at 85 years old
1 n& `4 }/ R, Y! N   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
) A6 w; h8 F1 a* K   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
0 Q9 I5 f0 `; k' A: Z  `    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
+ e0 [( e: o, Y/ o6 M   I like long walks,
  X% N" i/ d6 {; F    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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   The only reason I would take up walking
    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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5 F1 Z# r( `0 Y$ m7 E4 B    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
9 M$ e3 U6 |" n! F! _   I joined a health club last year,
% Y" d3 x6 y/ m: Z3 d    spent about 400 bucks.
! n) p. l" H6 c: N8 O' M5 i0 q& E    Haven't lost a pound.
/ r. t, Q7 T2 E3 z, T  ]: f    Apparently you have to go there.
  
/ d* [9 ~, }# r/ y+ y0 w  p& o' ]   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
9 Y' V* k3 p" m   I do have flabby thighs,
3 s1 R% {- k+ I, w    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
- q& N3 f% K3 q" Q  q   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
+ a0 G+ z4 q2 N. K# {7 z  start with a small country.
   
   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
, p# Y! o# z4 s( k    just getting over the hill.

- y9 y2 B! X+ \  We all get heavier as we get older,
( H2 k7 p* M0 U; z( t- f5 n: I! l    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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   AND

    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.