The Loss Of Surprise: By Corey Ryan Forrester

Corey Ryan Forrester’s Rants and Such! · Oct 21, 2025 · 5m

I had a kid in my late 30’s so while you are never truly prepared for fatherhood, I was a lot more knowledgeable of what to expect than the average southern man who impregnates the first girl to talk to him at a bonfire when he’s 19 (though lord knows I gave it a college try {or at least I think I did, I never went to college}) but recently it has dawned on me that I’m going to be among the first generation of parents that has to explain to their children the extinction of a once very common thing. Something from my own lifetime that has just ceased to exist. No not an animal, a fish, or some…