The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
: C8 x) {3 ^) c) Y$ _% N7 P   This enables you at 85 years old
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   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
( v8 T% l+ _! U0 e! [7 C% P    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
2 s( C4 R; i4 i& q' K) w" D   I like long walks,
$ B  A- W; U9 K+ r    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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9 K& Y; L) V/ g  o+ U   The only reason I would take up walking
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    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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- g8 m4 p% w  p+ j% v' }; t1 z   I joined a health club last year,
- M& a. V% l  R, {; T    spent about 400 bucks.
3 c% G5 `+ t$ ]  k3 m  I9 c    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
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1 g0 J$ K& I' P# P   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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  y; |% O4 f' G   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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    The advantage of exercising every day
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    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
  start with a small country.
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   I know I got a lot of exercise
0 a% E/ d4 O# _8 j7 i1 p/ z    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.
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  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
1 c# T3 `+ @6 C! E1 B    I look just fine.