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Keeping in shape: Al Dicks, 77, works out two hours a day, four days a week at The Fitness Institute.
Keeping in shape: Al Dicks, 77, works out two hours a day, four days a week at The Fitness Institute.

Keeping in shape: Al Dicks, 77, works out two hours a day, four days a week at The Fitness Institute.

Date3/29/1988
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