The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
% r! L5 H- H1 \3 v$ l   This enables you at 85 years old
   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
% v' S9 e5 F0 R1 Z/ o& X   home at $7000 per month.
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  _# \# L3 L9 J3 L0 ]    My grandpa started walking
, C! G$ E0 [' c" D2 u  K& y    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
* Q" r3 }9 K* v, i4 B   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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# J1 \+ U  A1 K0 N+ y7 m   The only reason I would take up walking
! I/ l3 n2 J% p: c    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
    I have to walk early in the morning,
- `. u" M$ @, z& [3 [1 ~    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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& b5 o& H3 b" x1 l. I   I joined a health club last year,
4 d* z, l3 }) H, Y5 [* Q, [% f    spent about 400 bucks.
& ~5 ~3 u3 j) o9 S    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
  
   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.
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    The advantage of exercising every day
  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
+ d: k7 E' F+ H/ z" v- H   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
% A( X, K$ S' |" D  start with a small country.
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+ x* s3 r5 C( ]   I know I got a lot of exercise
: o. @" H4 k( m! Z    the last few years,......
* r- |" H$ D( Y5 C/ _! N5 H8 M3 E: V    just getting over the hill.

  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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   AND
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6 f9 W6 u, S5 D+ ]4 S7 ?; i    Every time I start thinking too much
/ d1 n( F) D; ?+ @     about how I look,
( r9 E" m; I1 U3 s5 g- j: R' Q    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.