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
+ i" E+ s# a2 d% Y3 H8 @1 T   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
* B6 h: ~3 `, E) c: X7 H% `    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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; k2 c- \+ B, |   I like long walks,
* b3 \6 r/ }9 Y  R0 i- f) a! P/ B    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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( r' [$ ^1 H# @4 L9 N   The only reason I would take up walking
* d. g+ g, b1 [* X. e/ \8 m* c# s    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
! T1 a3 E9 F+ |5 H' v! [' g' Z. i    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
8 _0 J% y, I" K   I joined a health club last year,
8 X$ t8 q% ^' I7 X    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',
    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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7 d1 c' ?( m* M1 ~   I do have flabby thighs,
6 c5 ]. u% Y# t5 X: T    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

( S; [, B) L( ^    The advantage of exercising every day
% i9 Y$ s% L5 y" f. S3 W* I  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
/ \2 Y5 e+ a, T0 K: s! E' W- Y- c   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
9 p) q1 ]% r5 e* x  start with a small country.
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0 J. u7 R% X5 B0 Z   I know I got a lot of exercise
* J! ^) h8 `  |5 M' x; x    the last few years,......
/ b% o1 A, B% o8 J( A; w2 y) t    just getting over the hill.

" U" Z; R/ A) {1 y* A  We all get heavier as we get older,
    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
6 T' f2 n+ ^) c    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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   AND

    Every time I start thinking too much
+ z) _/ ^6 M2 h; [/ ~/ M     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
. c& }% X! }3 O. G: [- i   and by the time I leave,
& F4 q. T# n% ~$ E9 o  O    I look just fine.