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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:
# x- }. F6 F, `; r1 B# `+ t"I am going to send it back". 0 t/ M2 q7 E N5 U0 r+ v
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:
1 N' L* Q: M- c; D7 d0 U "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
/ A& T# E. O8 w: Q3 rHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." 0 Y3 |) ]( ^" n" r
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
% ^2 T* d% ^9 n$ J, n0 Y7 p. Z"Yes, I did."
* q! |' @& a5 S3 s9 s' EFinally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. - U1 [2 d" M$ k
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. 1 i- `- U/ t& W: ?
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"
6 t/ [" A, }5 z- X! n2 O$ u4 J"No, I am not. I do not do those things."& {5 v& S; c( T5 ?' s- ]
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside.
& b b. T$ t# l+ t% O& FI 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:
. Q) X1 h# k0 \( F1 P"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"
x3 `, c5 E* a- a: R( F4 v& D"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
5 k1 u5 b, W7 C1 [) h# \3 n% ^' g"I do not have an address."
. a8 }7 i- c! I: H4 v5 b' sI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"7 Q2 e' ?1 P4 U4 @: {) B [2 A
He did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
) u# V1 @3 ^# M' G; M+ j2 eMy 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. 1 d* Y. o& o5 u
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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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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