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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:
0 @2 h+ ^9 \, o' {) u"I am going to send it back". # o' C8 L, } y. D1 E' b
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:) J/ H: ]* w# @" Q, i* I
"I am sorry, what are you sending back?" / |; u' N3 b2 L/ d) {/ ^
He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." 4 Y2 l" o' A3 N+ t! m% R" f
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?" 7 ~# c4 g6 z8 ?3 p
"Yes, I did."
$ @# h4 S0 N: y' r7 B2 IFinally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. % E$ x# g1 k: 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.
! Q, i9 \/ V8 w. \; K9 i2 B"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"! l0 l: f1 d$ r" B* X4 ]% T
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."8 @8 ?. ^# y$ N$ |
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. L" L; m2 A; b3 C" a* u( R1 i
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:. U! e7 F2 }2 v* y$ ^' r
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"6 t' r! [- m$ [7 T- q
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:% K7 R. u4 R; I# S, z* G. g( g
"I do not have an address." ]6 }6 }9 r3 c) Q6 ]6 l6 A+ ~, p: g
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
, m+ y: D: B6 a) HHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home.": r1 j/ n I2 P
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.
# |+ \ \( J5 D, pHe 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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