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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:
/ y5 ]$ @3 R' a5 u"I am going to send it back".
3 {+ T& O. m% [% i' P5 t* d) tI 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:4 V3 y0 x3 g5 L8 ^8 x: T/ J j
"I am sorry, what are you sending back?" . g; @, a1 r, Q
He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
& q" P* v+ L& G5 c8 B' @"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
) ~7 U* L# H4 _4 i% {"Yes, I did."7 V/ m3 E- }: u$ \% z
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post.
6 X4 W4 U! I( X; g2 W H! M. K! s& zHe 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 h& R. `' N. j+ K3 `( e# f6 Y
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"4 Y8 }7 Z$ h K7 }; A1 [# g
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."! e( M5 a* t `4 B
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 0 n# @. O5 J1 U' X, G9 o0 P' 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 n9 h7 K4 f2 T9 t4 d# z! O+ t; x
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"/ e, T2 h5 r+ _1 ` f! U
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:- x g* ]3 u0 h+ l* D# \! u b
"I do not have an address."
, c0 N, T& _0 n: t1 J6 \3 n" iI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
# [, ~( h& C" R! l# CHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home.": b. C# |- x; z( |
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. + [, s% j. j# m! r' 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.
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