The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
   This enables you at 85 years old
; G3 q' P0 e5 N8 f4 v+ `   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
   home at $7000 per month.

2 L% ~1 U. t4 M    My grandpa started walking
6 M7 @/ v! S* s! u/ w2 O' J7 g* r    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
: o8 q) b" ]3 A4 }4 j    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
6 w) ~  F( y) ]: t7 R: z- \   I like long walks,
# K1 N- R, m4 A, t    especially when they are taken
9 ?1 ^/ E1 D5 p    by people who annoy me.
  
   The only reason I would take up walking
0 d8 ~+ y7 n2 j2 z: z; Z5 R    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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2 d' ^4 g& ]' n! o- j    I have to walk early in the morning,
( o& g  R+ ^0 B    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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) |2 M; Z0 s4 W7 }4 @. S0 P& G   I joined a health club last year,
    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',
; k" V2 i& F5 J4 S    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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9 @3 O" h" c5 K0 f' K4 R2 {   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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, a  @) g2 ~7 i* z: _3 Z    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
* n+ P4 }1 B, Q& P7 S   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
6 y1 H; f! R0 H" t! X  start with a small country.
   
   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.
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, j. \" H" p4 S- s5 X7 g2 T1 Y8 A  We all get heavier as we get older,
, _) H/ O1 {+ S. a$ _. x" w0 h: Q1 W    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
. a7 Y* J1 f1 x% L& f1 _4 ~3 _/ ]    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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    Every time I start thinking too much
% O3 p  [! y. g% i1 [9 s     about how I look,
5 N& }/ @. j& y    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
  k1 I. s- E, P3 y- Z    I look just fine.