I recently posted a Tale of 2 states, sent to me by a friend.  I asked his permission to post it, and he said ok, but to not mention him.  SO I cleaned it up and posted it.  I had thought I had attributed it to anonymous at the end, but upon looking back on it, I see that line was deleted.  So some got the impression that I had written it.  I did not say I did.

Then some accused me of avoiding it.  SOme people spend all day haunting the forums, but as I have stated before, I cannot get into the forums, so the only way I know when something has been commented upon is through email notification.  I had not received any such notification until today.

Upon learning that the offending article was missing the attribution, I deleted it.  But before letting it go, I did want to appologize to any who thought I was trying to deceive them, or that thought I was the originator.  It was not my intention to deceive nor claim credit.  I posted it as you saw, but the "I" in the first line, I assumed (and it still may be true) was the friend who sent it.

I am not in the habit of plagarizing, and do not make a career of it.  But I also made a mistake in not proof reading the article before I posted it, or indeed at any time since then until today.  Yes, it is plagarism, and for that I am sorry.