Rapunzel actually stood up to introduce herself. "My name is Rapunzel," she said with a smile that declared she wanted everyone to be her friend.

"And I actually can't remember the first time I met my mother, but she's someone I love?" She had the odd feeling that that wasn't quite what the question was, but she didn't entirely understand all the distinctions she kept seeing on TV and movies and stuff. There was something, though. That much she knew.

Thus the hesitance.