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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: 4 {3 {. {2 Y4 V( ?' t
"I am going to send it back".
* B% h8 h+ ? t# aI 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:
# ^+ Q! p) B" z- D7 Y6 D: p) h0 d "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
) |- g5 B- B; ]7 ?4 |1 PHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." & \; D9 m" j4 Y$ H# S5 z* J
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?" $ ~2 H1 N$ s, p, p9 n( d1 }
"Yes, I did."
& f5 M! L( x+ ]) y/ w* SFinally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post.
! g+ I* \: d$ x- 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.
. K' l( p: f& ^0 h. @+ q2 K"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"5 ^3 w1 N9 l( y3 h9 x
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."
! M7 W7 k( z1 z1 N3 M. \6 S% u1 AHe took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 6 E( w$ i* c7 g1 b( p; O
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:* N! O5 M( f) d- W6 n
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"
$ l6 `8 W+ E* {3 s0 ?7 [ |0 a1 C"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
6 H. `+ A3 U; c; I" K% J# X"I do not have an address."" A$ i# ?( ?/ |: g- C( X: s) c
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?". @. M P H2 D5 ^1 a$ V
He did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."9 l, ]% h: r2 V4 Z2 _
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.
: M0 V0 {; L4 e$ O9 |& uHe 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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