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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:
) p& s' u: O V% a i+ P"I am going to send it back".
0 S( }5 q0 H9 c* pI 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:
, {3 Z) A2 @. m+ |6 _/ ?2 b "I am sorry, what are you sending back?" ! r! [: i! d/ v$ W
He said, "the Wallet, I am sending back the wallet." Then he added: "I am going to pay the postage."
1 ?( |4 F' L" J+ o2 X. E6 |"Oh, you found a wallet, and you are going to send it back to the person who lost it?" 9 N$ t/ n5 r4 Y8 g. a$ I
"Yes, I did."# W* W" g6 [3 ]# k5 p/ k6 n* O
Finally I understood: this dishevelled man found a wallet, and he was going to return it to the owner by post. 2 |' v2 C, t( Y, E: T
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. ) `- o" O: V. S$ C' U
"Are you going to take some money from the wallet to pay the postage?"
) c5 V1 P( U. P7 r* M"No, I am not. I do not do those things."' u8 p% f) n6 }0 [6 y% E
He took out his wallet, which was nearly worn-out, small, and almost empty. There were some coins inside. ; z6 ^5 A/ m) c( \; V
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:9 S7 N' z% T# u
"Is it okay that I do not write this part?"! ]( p& r* Y) G Z( F" Q
"Yes, you may." I thought he must want to be a nameless hero. But he said:( j# ~) a9 T' {
"I do not have an address."
D' D% o8 t; M. f5 F. h( D @- NI was surprised: "oh, where do you live?"0 Y! ~2 l5 D! ?' v1 h# {1 ]
He did not look up, and said: "I do not have a home."
: ^7 s( r8 ^% u: R, u3 iMy 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.
7 g4 d, F* a& w0 ?He did not a posses a home, but he had a big heart. He had the precious fortune of being a man of integrity. & I5 e/ |6 _9 l- {& s8 ~
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