PREFACE: A FOOL'S GUIDE TO FAKE SUCCESS
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
My real doctor was on vacation. This new doctor was merely stepping in to examine me as part of a routine annual physical. By chance, the new doctor was older, much more experienced, and had just diagnosed two other male patients with testicular tumors.
It was as if he was primed to diagnose me as well.
After noticing my right testicle was slightly smaller than my left, the doctor ordered a series of labs to confirm that I indeed had a tumor. What followed was the most life‐altering, life‐changing, terrifying experience ...
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