The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
7 P$ U: ~- E; {2 p# ]+ b( b   This enables you at 85 years old
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/ [: {. Z) Y% U: e% T" o0 h. q* `   home at $7000 per month.
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" W9 F' u0 e& S# n, q; ^7 F. i7 a    My grandpa started walking
" J& w. Q; f! {" k    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
4 Y# @$ ^, g, |. K    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
6 |  ~" s8 D  I- y' D   I like long walks,
+ l' J* ^9 ]# O  y    especially when they are taken
" |1 J! M; T+ T& u/ q9 S% T, y    by people who annoy me.
  
   The only reason I would take up walking
    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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    I have to walk early in the morning,
, ~3 A" Y9 \) K# }' z+ w( S. C    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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# B! m) M2 M" X   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
    Haven't lost a pound.
/ `/ }! U8 J& \  ]- _% _2 T    Apparently you have to go there.
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   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
& V' p3 s$ G9 K5 _  P% l/ e, n7 f    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
  
   I do have flabby thighs,
, O- J% ^5 Q$ R    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

    The advantage of exercising every day
  &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,
1 l2 P% q+ ^. l( g3 k( D6 [8 H  start with a small country.
   
# Z0 l, s. x$ N   I know I got a lot of exercise
2 o- N- ]* e8 H/ v    the last few years,......
. {9 Y' |7 B5 Z- u    just getting over the hill.
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$ h, s# {6 a3 B) n3 u4 ?  We all get heavier as we get older,
+ Z) t( A: L. r6 }    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
$ R/ M8 s- i" h" s1 J: S  p    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
# t$ }; O1 z: w0 e/ y( S7 `   AND

    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
) A% [" Z  X" g& f+ R   and by the time I leave,
    I look just fine.