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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:
- } T8 M: F# q0 E( X! q( N, ]' N"I am going to send it back". # Z9 Y3 g. {/ `& d6 K
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:
9 I0 A n9 _% i3 P7 b "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
) @+ ]) g" w* b; x5 [He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." , g1 T1 \: k* E
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
+ f: v$ G- P; ]"Yes, I did."
/ q; M/ y2 \& W8 hFinally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post.
1 {9 _$ ?1 _4 y7 J( u$ tHe 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.
* o- F7 G: q- C7 g6 g"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"
5 H% m- K; u% d1 r6 h"No, I am not. I do not do those things."
' Y. g$ B: f. Z7 k! _6 ^He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside.
- ]( G% N* h' i0 a8 |7 i/ lI 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:+ [3 S. O3 c g. y
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?") j% j1 g- j5 f6 R0 C* m7 T9 V
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
: C8 M6 p# m" \, n# h"I do not have an address."8 e" ~$ F7 h1 @5 p
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?") h. h# v$ } t3 \9 B8 ?/ ?. |
He did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."0 S% \! H7 X& r# l1 d ^
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. " V9 X. k# f: Q2 X; c
He did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. ' [1 Q- [% J) M" i
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