True gravity of youthful misdeed

Actually, friend Ruth, I should thank you for properly categorizing a misdeed of my youth. My Latin teacher, of happy memory, kept, with my permission, my paper on the Trojan War. She said I was second only to one of her students of a prior generation in my knowledge of classical mythology. Actually, I now realize, thanks to you, that it was plagiarism. Only one source book. I even traced the illustrations. At the time I realized that I had fallen short. But only now, thanks to you, have I become fully aware of the gravity of my misdeed.