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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 h% ?: _; J3 i2 t i, I"I am going to send it back".
; Z6 h& T& D6 }$ h: ?" R, t- V( `/ OI 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:% P9 W# m* T- B9 x* y
"I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
1 |7 K2 R$ v, M, A! I$ MHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage." 2 I) u- p3 R' L @/ H/ S
"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
! u# M6 N u$ [( O7 K* ?% a9 w"Yes, I did.". ]6 p0 E+ ^" m+ a# z9 p
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. 5 }) ]0 L( N4 ^" _' Y8 p3 t# n
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.
3 W9 a8 v% M9 [, b8 x$ X"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"* K4 M0 {( S& u
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."# v/ Q9 H1 C9 A) I, {# c; w+ y
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 3 R) L* F& J- o6 P7 Y0 x
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:( a- Y/ J. _! h! u
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"
# }+ F2 W% [+ n: H; Y"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:
4 U1 C- R% b. z& o6 {& T"I do not have an address."
: G8 g" Y# U& j' x! vI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
; }" C6 k; f1 U: KHe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
6 M/ C- Y! K, o) N% t8 CMy 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. 0 g# @8 ~( z6 y/ T
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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