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Today I was volunteering at a post office. A man in an old jacket with uncombed hair came to the counter. He had a wallet in his hand, and put it on the counter. He told me:
3 c. Q! W" T9 W$ X0 |. ~"I am going to send it back".
& m$ ~; q7 `4 w" U7 V0 wI did not understand what he meant by "it", because usually people would send a letter or a parcel back to the sender, and I did not see he had any of those. So I asked him:
) G7 [. Y2 R; r" D5 e3 f "I am sorry, what are you sending back?" " V$ K' p1 q" k
He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
9 z/ H/ ^# A7 V6 _4 Z"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
3 {4 G3 u: O5 g- c# k( g: i' S& `9 @, I"Yes, I did."5 r% W( L" i1 V
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post.
) M1 c6 M ^2 y8 _$ k# [He took the ID card from the wallet, and showed me the address of the loser of the wallet. I saw there were several one-hundred bills in the wallet. * Q5 b3 Z) g, X, q! R3 E
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"8 ^$ F+ L* |& m" F7 s, L. E
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."
; E, f, Q3 v% | lHe took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. $ b4 Y J- O+ J* {
I gave him a bubbled envelope, and instructed him where to write the addresses. He wrote the owner's address, but stopped at writing a return address. He asked:" g# D \% S R# [7 [
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"9 n& I! ]; D5 ]/ P% L$ ~$ H
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
1 T, [% ?& i6 c( _0 w2 X1 L% S"I do not have an address."+ {5 J6 e! M3 a9 C6 J
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
: m- @- L, q6 E C; W, yHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."# W. B# f0 Y4 u$ k
My heart had a sudden jump. I realized that this is a homeless man who found money but was sending it back to the person who lost it.
# K1 t& X9 M' h, x8 K, w6 O5 JHe did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. 9 K6 K* a- R4 h! o7 P# F
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