Girls get thrown a shit ton of "your prince will come and you'll live happily ever after!" from such a young age, by 8 years old all the girls in my class were boy crazy (Crushes and puppy love, good times). Its definitely not the same as any sort of awakening, but I'm not sure Cynthia's even reached the puppy love phase, something did go horrible wrong at the age of 12, maybe a really fucked up late first crush? I keep forgetting how old the orphan is, but there's a reason Cynthia made her 6-8 and that's used as a shield for her to avoid complex feelings, because the character is "young".
I have to wonder what her life was like before she knew what the wogglebug even was, and if who ever gave her that damn oz book can sleep at night.
edit: I'm making the assumption that she hasn't hit the puppy love phase as I just can't find any sort of love in her works, as I stated earlier. It's just completely devoid of any emotion, and the way she talks about her mom and her family, I can't say she feels for anyone but herself, it's like she's stuck in the me phase.