The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
9 w$ a1 o+ X( \) Z   This enables you at 85 years old
/ Q. B' Z/ y3 v   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
$ k  _' c1 b: B6 T* X   home at $7000 per month.

" b+ `: Z( ?1 m6 |8 b4 n( _    My grandpa started walking
/ j; C4 s& C. L: o0 R& _    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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   I like long walks,
    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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   The only reason I would take up walking
2 }( N% s/ _5 X# N+ x    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
  
0 D2 a1 H" G- y) ?( v! o    I have to walk early in the morning,
" H, ~/ v7 y: b) w' a    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
, G+ B) V& [7 @* |/ c/ u+ f   I joined a health club last year,
+ q1 a9 r: D& a: g: s) J    spent about 400 bucks.
/ E' o- M" A5 p( p    Haven't lost a pound.
, Y7 k6 W- h" `8 g8 T' i! F: T' T    Apparently you have to go there.
  
   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
9 S1 F* i% g, a+ ^; N# }/ b4 ]    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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, j- k. t5 K) l/ ^4 E   I do have flabby thighs,
    but fortunately my stomach covers them.
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    The advantage of exercising every day
7 s+ Z+ s4 \  F  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
  
   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
  start with a small country.
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0 I# R7 m! ^% @2 R5 v5 W& ?# Q   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.
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# Y4 \" X/ i* x; C  We all get heavier as we get older,
5 [1 b! ^% R* I0 ~4 F    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
- K4 ?( }  o+ Y. H+ Z    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
   AND
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    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
0 V! r1 o! E; `# j1 d' E   and by the time I leave,
/ [  {" r4 ^" O# k, c- x    I look just fine.