The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
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   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
- Z5 N8 D/ c& i1 g4 E   home at $7000 per month.
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- ~2 h4 X6 L0 h    My grandpa started walking
    five miles a day when he was 60.
% }$ f$ ^5 \# x; b7 e    Now he's 97 years old
1 C. s) E+ b! p/ t0 `8 x1 V    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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   I like long walks,
9 h+ M2 ~0 X/ H0 R3 H) N: f5 {+ l    especially when they are taken
6 E0 I; M+ S/ L, L1 f2 k* S2 v    by people who annoy me.
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   The only reason I would take up walking
! [$ }# l7 M# M1 F    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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; Z, P. \9 J8 @) J% @! @    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
5 B9 J( x: p6 F. `5 u   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
3 Y6 b+ \# M  w! b1 z0 B; H/ x; k    Haven't lost a pound.
- r9 M: K% C0 l) Z5 d2 O- t    Apparently you have to go there.
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: `" w( ]9 Z' J( }" u$ w   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
; W( V/ t7 n1 t* E   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

9 f4 Y% m- ]  @; q& L    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
. G" G7 A0 u, }7 R- y    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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: N* @+ K9 F* q. v3 i* T   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
" I- g% l, W. Y3 I6 U  start with a small country.
   
9 E6 d3 F0 f2 c: ~; J   I know I got a lot of exercise
, e( V7 L( {- W! d0 d9 D! G    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.

4 k$ F  T$ c) Q7 \  N$ {% ?5 N( m! `) R  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
7 b7 w- ?3 K5 L7 M: m' P, ?    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
; F1 B6 t* Q6 c5 O! f* L   AND

; w# z' M3 j9 U    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
7 J" v( Y; t8 b* x    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.