I think one of the most affirming messages of Lion was that adopted children come with a history, even if they’re infants. Their desire to know their history, to understand their past, to create closure is not a rejection of their adoptive parents – they know who raised them and loved them, and don’t stop loving their adoptive parents just because they want to know and/or connect with their birth families. I loved Saroo’s empathy for his birth mother, that he understood that for 25 years she had had no idea what had happened to her son – he had literally just vanished as if into thin air. I think about our daughters’ birth families all the time, and wish I had a way to let them know how the girls have grown and what’s become of them. I honestly believe those parents don’t go through a day when they don’t think of their daughters, and wonder what happened to them.