Fiction Jon Milnes J u ly / A u g u s t 2 0 1 7 1 3 3 Surf Lung One By Frederick Sargent G rowing up, I always wondered what it would be like to have “cool parents.” I knew with a certainty that my own parents were not cool. For one thing, they were may- be 15 years older than my friends’ par- ents. They were married late in the game, and my father was over 40 when I was born. My mother was very welcoming to my friends–always ready with a congo bar and refreshments. But my father sub- scribed to the old adage “Children are to