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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:
0 N4 t& t6 ^* S: C- S) H"I am going to send it back". / n& j# n. M, s
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:
% X. V" @9 H* T" E/ k) }0 D "I am sorry, what are you sending back?" ; a5 E) l& \7 z% y2 Y2 c
He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
9 Y$ J% \+ c' O8 I) i& ]7 P"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?" 9 `: P) R, t) L7 j; ~
"Yes, I did.", Z7 d, W$ o# } d
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post.
6 |2 a' S/ H3 D9 \* C5 kHe 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.
4 P, ]4 U$ W5 m1 M/ t5 K"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?" v; w- F0 _# J+ `* [8 N
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."4 a2 _' H, f% R' i
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 3 `& d% L6 S {" |9 H& T
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:. h! e8 ~$ p ?) R' w
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"
! U" {: n; @5 u, F: g"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
; A' ?; X7 x9 O5 r"I do not have an address."6 z0 e, s3 l% |& Y4 `' E
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
6 X& u' j2 C; ^6 AHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
' m7 r" w" a1 oMy 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.
, i4 y* \7 X% _+ u% z9 ?He did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity.
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