The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
* {! U  N8 l& D9 C* B: `8 c   This enables you at 85 years old
   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
# Q% r3 D, V& V& L7 u   home at $7000 per month.
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' S* E2 K7 V* ~" W3 f* O# s4 n    My grandpa started walking
: @- \: r; \1 m6 R9 |% A    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
: {7 T6 I1 _9 z- c    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
   I like long walks,
' I$ R! \2 f2 f. C- i    especially when they are taken
7 K" ?+ ^1 Z6 Y& \* ^    by people who annoy me.
  
   The only reason I would take up walking
3 A( k& O' j. P    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
3 L2 X2 g* n$ x! I$ @4 E9 Q1 M    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
8 A- E0 p/ w9 |# b4 x* h* P   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
( S# U* V7 V8 N3 `0 _    Apparently you have to go there.
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4 ?4 c6 w3 N  D8 K- Q0 F7 @  C- A   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

1 N8 J: d& o2 z3 g, C) c    The advantage of exercising every day
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" a- g( l/ b6 ?( F% \0 e! D7 J2 s1 x    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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! f$ N; {0 o: P   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
' m. f7 O9 c& y( |, ^  start with a small country.
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) v$ B" `% d2 C7 [% G% f; M   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
) _4 a8 \5 e/ x+ c2 g    just getting over the hill.

  We all get heavier as we get older,
. q8 h/ l+ p" Z5 x: p# K  Z+ c    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
   AND

9 }& R9 ]: E* d4 U6 n* F  h$ e& ~6 P    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
1 g% ~) h: Q. @2 W5 \0 w    I just find a Happy Hour
/ `5 @5 A6 V6 X' X! q* u' k3 z   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.