I’ll never forget the morning I first noticed it — a bright, almost neon orange blotch glaring up at me from my favorite gray towel. The color was so vivid and unnatural, as if someone had carelessly swiped the fabric with a glowing marker. It caught me completely off guard. At first, I thought it was just a random spill or maybe some kind of rust stain, the kind you sometimes get from old metal fixtures or pipes. I wasn’t too worried. I simply brushed it off, thinking it was a one-time thing that would come out in the wash. I tossed the towel into the washing machine with an extra dose of detergent and even added some stain remover, fully expecting the mark to disappear. But when I pulled the towel out after the cycle, the orange blotch was still there — bright, bold, and utterly stubborn. That’s when I started to realize this was going to be a bigger problem than I initially thought. Over the next few weeks, the orange marks began to spread. Towels that I rarely used suddenly started showing the…

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