[ He's still getting a gold star for the effort. ]

No, she wasn't...! At least I think she wasn't... she had her cousin living here with her. They're good people...

[ Though she can't shake the thought that maybe Maria was... lonely, after all. Considering her reaction to when Menma told her that she would have left Goldenrod sometime after Christmas. ]

But her mom wasn't here. She told me such good things about her mom.