And why had he not thought about his parents until then?

I was so busy at school I didn't have time to think about my parents.

I hadn't let myself think about his real parents since I'd crossed the river.

Mostly, however, I tried not to think about my parents.

"I thought about my parents, my father, and what they went through," she said.

For the second time today, she was thinking about her parents.

She had been thinking about her parents lately, something she hadn't done for a while.

As a child, he'd tried to think about his parents, to imagine their faces, but there was nothing inside him.