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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:
: j3 h( Q {( [- Z: @9 S! \- o/ `: ~"I am going to send it back". 4 |) L3 r8 U6 \+ l3 q
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:
# @/ L' G+ B' z "I am sorry, what are you sending back?" ! h3 @' j* Q% V$ Z( L/ Q& h( Y
He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
+ L9 g' x, i8 m0 d) l1 }"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?"
, p/ o U+ }4 }' v5 O"Yes, I did."8 a4 X4 s* T/ Z$ o
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. $ t; k. V4 _- M0 D& L: x
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 n! P1 G+ M1 W# L; P: W
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"" j$ @6 \2 X7 O
"No, I am not. I do not do those things."" ? I% q0 s2 O6 t2 F! {; [
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. 5 e- S2 Z/ N5 ? g g/ F
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:
6 `. R# \% k" e"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"
! `' e: Y0 D# i* Q" {+ Z0 @3 f"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:+ d0 e- i% B! u. I: v
"I do not have an address.") v4 ^- f5 j( M7 P- Y( T- f
I was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"
* \6 P& |* r+ @- K& y+ THe did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
0 h$ N2 M, P- v- L9 [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. 4 ]2 ~8 A7 _% |( ?6 k9 _/ D, U- a
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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