The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
( d  X* B) `1 D   This enables you at 85 years old
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   home at $7000 per month.

    My grandpa started walking
  p: E) S. ?1 Q1 @3 a    five miles a day when he was 60.
( [5 |0 `  P  K* e; p$ e, {    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
  
* i+ `  J2 Z# }0 L, F1 n: E   I like long walks,
3 y: H; T/ h8 b( O9 O" U    especially when they are taken
    by people who annoy me.
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/ C1 O. T' E: z" ~   The only reason I would take up walking
    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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4 v5 ~5 k/ b$ l    I have to walk early in the morning,
    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
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   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
2 O* \( a- s. |% {+ o5 T) k2 S    Haven't lost a pound.
    Apparently you have to go there.
  
' y5 p) I% ]. Y, I% h8 y% N   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
* W3 P; m" j+ q7 O( s    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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   I do have flabby thighs,
; c& N7 u, b# }6 ]6 X& l* f    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

0 }8 [3 q) n  r    The advantage of exercising every day
8 Q0 N$ f0 ^" ~0 I  &n bsp; is so when you die, they'll say,
. r& C2 K; O9 C' H8 U' z    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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4 H) s% N7 J# I' G& d2 T) `( `   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
  start with a small country.
   
   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
    just getting over the hill.
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  We all get heavier as we get older,
4 ~2 s. j7 c) J% H/ d    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
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# V/ Y3 u3 r: z6 V0 M! a! C    Every time I start thinking too much
( k/ B3 S- h/ j1 ^! P     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
   and by the time I leave,
/ ]) a8 g+ R! O- j/ T    I look just fine.