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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 S' A$ @/ N1 p9 G7 L! _"I am going to send it back". ! z) {+ l( I- q9 y- ~6 U
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:
$ Y. C; m* L* ^" B "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
, j3 Q4 {: ^; ^He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." 3 u% q9 a9 s# A( L: U0 {, }& Q4 g
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?" & u2 K) ^0 h( ~* O t5 M7 |
"Yes, I did."1 O1 R) v, Z$ d& n* D0 K
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post.
( A# Q9 A9 ^8 f5 e) S% `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. : w1 F) W7 Y0 J, e$ j$ C) D
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"4 c2 o7 v4 p6 v5 K {" o
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."
+ [/ @8 U- k' rHe took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside.
1 A7 _! P- s5 |0 j7 p jI 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:
6 w4 S! |* Z; a, K"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"/ @# t2 g$ X4 P/ T4 `
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
1 ~8 E3 A, c6 |"I do not have an address."
% S2 ?; { W( l( `$ Q" a1 wI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
. r9 f9 D8 v% vHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
3 f% i' \/ e/ n9 wMy 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.
% t* \$ G3 y/ I z( AHe did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. ) W' ~. \1 T1 N6 e8 F: l3 H3 Q1 q
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