All Aunt Hagar's Children

What medical diagnosis serves to shatter Percival's self-confidence in the story, Resurrecting Methuselah, from the collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children?

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Percival's confidence in himself and in the world is shattered when he suffers a diagnosis of breast cancer and becomes convinced that this is somehow a mark against his virility because it is a woman's illness.

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Resurrecting Methuselah