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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: ; s8 i3 Y# ~2 J: O8 O1 y7 g7 a. T/ `: }
"I am going to send it back". 1 ]* {. {4 N4 j! ]( j, E
I 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:
+ ?7 D- y6 O1 C% m "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
) u) {+ B/ O O3 A+ B1 t2 kHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
& ^% ~: p/ D: r6 b"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?" ) Y: p1 K3 [7 q5 N2 L
"Yes, I did."
+ u9 v2 x5 i( R; L; bFinally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. ; p! H8 j5 t# u9 e# q0 E
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. $ o2 m" }; ]- H$ \4 ]
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"
3 j( L5 U! b7 H% u4 u1 ?"No, I am not. I do not do those things.": O: d0 \" u) {% Y. O) P/ P9 l
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 5 ]! V5 T( E9 W8 C2 I" L g
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:
7 i3 @' _9 O- y5 i& q2 q"Is it okay that I do not write this part?") d' K2 M- _! L; Q4 Y9 y
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
+ \+ v5 a3 x1 _) O6 j3 B9 p8 c* c"I do not have an address.": d s. q/ ^: K+ @# I* X$ I
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
3 t: V9 p: O/ k: Y% n7 e7 VHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
3 ~ P0 a( J# t2 N& k3 D: u" q; bMy 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.
8 W! e; r- ?2 v& t2 LHe did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. 4 u0 l$ q( C: j' H* i
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鲜花鸡蛋UncleSam 在2017-3-19 13:41 送朵鲜花 并说:我非常同意你的观点,送朵鲜花鼓励一下
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