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
   home at $7000 per month.
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' D- x4 g- g0 f/ @' m, m( j  G    My grandpa started walking
    five miles a day when he was 60.
; Z1 J9 p6 K0 J) Q    Now he's 97 years old
4 s$ p# f+ q  y3 f    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
   I like long walks,
8 i5 m9 w( d2 J% F) P# ?5 \4 W    especially when they are taken
3 U3 m0 n2 {" S# C& M    by people who annoy me.
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   The only reason I would take up walking
" F8 m! }8 R% d! `& J    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
8 J4 |1 y( x! h; ~; L    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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$ W$ x) ?/ d% }( @/ e   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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7 i* H/ v( M. e1 i/ e+ X) m   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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  ]! Z8 }8 A0 x- v; ^8 W, O. ^6 n   I do have flabby thighs,
! M4 p2 Z0 o* f, T5 i! x' j    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

    The advantage of exercising every day
. E0 B2 {  o3 T: r. [1 Y2 A$ ]  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
+ G; b2 A% R" m' ~    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
9 U0 ]; }- z) p: s  J# ^  start with a small country.
   
   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
" n3 y( h1 r, x8 T    just getting over the hill.

2 q% u' g. Z4 G* d5 |; b& x! x  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
  f; V' z" O9 D; s+ z6 `    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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   AND
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    Every time I start thinking too much
: _; \/ v7 C- G" w8 o     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
, \( F$ Y( E9 {- d- U/ m2 A! W   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.