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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: 9 w. _' w( @ r3 N8 p9 S7 f
"I am going to send it back".
; S2 h9 w( d: G4 wI 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:
0 W& @) v/ J5 g8 d$ O* r "I am sorry, what are you sending back?"
, R8 v8 A* }+ a' n+ a# UHe said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
! {2 t5 {: ~1 n7 C* [; B"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
7 f3 r) {9 }7 b+ R6 }7 ?1 X5 N"Yes, I did."
- b5 ?3 K, @2 T" WFinally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. & O+ X. ]5 j0 u! ~4 p3 A% 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.
4 P; H# M# R1 e$ ]. C8 n"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"
, z1 T9 B0 s: I+ Z"No, I am not. I do not do those things."
) ]% i: n9 _, A& V4 Y# z: pHe took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. . C. ^! q j0 y7 B6 a
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:+ t& v1 K* ?0 g' ^4 s( J
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"
- i! |0 q# i( a1 `- }# y"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:- M5 J# H; s2 R7 @$ W
"I do not have an address."
9 f+ D& ?2 `% b2 y6 P- Z$ r3 RI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"/ i% J, `" M4 }. U. U
He did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
) Q9 X* q# g$ E# Z% k' [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. / z0 n; ^4 N6 S/ M' m4 [2 S
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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