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November 17, 2022

As I passed by my desk in my dorm room this morning, I noticed the bag of cuties sitting on top of my desk. I thought to myself that they are still good to eat, but then I realized they have been sitting there for almost two weeks. I had one a couple days ago actually, and it was soft. It still tasted good, but I could tell that they had been sitting for awhile.

Under the netted bag appears to be nothing. No juices leaking from the textured orange spheres, no fuzzy white mold, and no smells are present from the oranges. I was expecting the oranges to have rotting juices leaking from under the bag, soaking into all of my papers and other things on my messy desk. I for sure thought they would be covered in mold, but they were not. There was no sign of any destruction that the orange spheres may have caused; not yet anyway.

The oranges are beginning to feel soft. Through the blue netting I can see brown spots starting to appear. No smells yet, but do oranges smell when they rot?

There are still probably twelve oranges in the bag that might not ever get the chance to be enjoyed. Instead they will sit rotting and withering away either on my desk or in the dumpster when I finally decide to throw them away. Perhaps next time I buy a bag of cuties, they will be eaten before they start to get soft and gross.

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