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The pain is worst in her thigh, where she had a metal rod inserted after cancer rotted her femur.

Many seemed scrupulously cared for, but in others a rotted half-sprung mattress would block an upper floor window, with trash strewn in the yard.

Santa Monica resident Maria Alzaga said she too was perplexed when she caught her first whiff of the “rotted food/garbage/sewage” odor on Sunday evening.

Maybe you’ve read about how crops rotted in the fields and hospitals lost critical workers in the U.K. after Brexit.

Although the vessel had largely rotted away, radiocarbon dating of the wood around some of the rivets and the two charcoal layers high up in the mound indicated that the burial had occurred around 700 A.D., making it the earliest known example of a ship burial in Scandinavia.