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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: , @% {1 U- U! q, e$ Y8 L
"I am going to send it back". 3 O+ c5 I" T2 A. q
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:
. R, ]* U' o' B* S0 E "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
/ A2 G* Y: Z( z5 m4 QHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." 7 m& {8 U' B; u# x2 i; S3 o
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
' r4 S, k) I/ }"Yes, I did.", t( u1 }6 P" o! t. {/ ^* V2 [0 Q
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. ) b/ H% w0 N% V( p! w7 }. c
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.
5 m; L- [' ?& w9 p0 V"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"
7 q# x, }3 e: f# ~6 J! ~- s"No, I am not. I do not do those things."0 ^- x2 L; S& S
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside.
/ p9 @, R* a/ g# }0 qI 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:
- B n" ~. L# ["Is it okay that I do not write this part?"6 `0 Y6 [2 `. Q$ T. l/ ~7 g( N
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
. P- ^ P5 X9 V( \"I do not have an address."
& N; R0 L# L$ fI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"! o' h; T$ j8 _8 j: |; a) A
He did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."' T# }1 r- M4 Q3 z- Q. ~$ {
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. 7 L! y i( Q8 L! I
He did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. & g/ U0 R. m7 O6 _- u8 X% W; L! h
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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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