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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:
; P, ]: P$ N( }) }8 S* ?3 s% W8 v1 T"I am going to send it back".
1 r, j1 M) N9 N+ {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# N2 F: x1 A/ ~8 [' o$ B
"I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
" |" i2 i3 [1 H2 XHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." 2 C# u: _0 h9 [' I4 _
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
6 c7 p5 F9 P) L5 g; C. x6 @4 A"Yes, I did."7 I: U' {- u4 W9 r* o. t1 n3 i
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. $ t, s4 e+ R* X/ \( x
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. 6 @+ v4 A+ s$ D3 Y
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"& x" v: ^. O9 r A5 H0 Z8 m u- c. M
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."
' C% E" Q/ Q" M8 GHe took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 5 B6 P2 I8 \/ P4 g3 J
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:, e0 d( l/ a2 S- |6 O; [
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"3 w& Q% c! H; {# E3 b c: N1 f
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
" G) j- S, E2 a0 U6 H"I do not have an address."
9 ?! [7 W; Z: M& t% ?- I! q: N, e. W f5 mI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
1 Z4 S( O" D8 O3 V6 r4 D+ v/ THe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
$ g+ r, b0 Z. J5 J% F. |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.
V+ A7 s. Y; Z0 E$ G7 |) h3 m! wHe did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. ' @5 W) ?6 l) x# G) q# h
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