Mrs. Kantor was unable to find anything to incriminate me. She gave me a C on the paper, explaining that it should have been an F, but since she didn’t find the sources I had “stolen” from, she was being fair by not giving me an F. Instead, she took 20 points off for two run-on sentences. I remember feeling tired when she handed my paper back. I accepted the grade. I think I even thanked her. After that, I didn’t want to be a writer anymore.
