7 reasons to believe Rosemary felt as strongly as Gabe

Having seen this movie several times recently, I wish I could get Levin & Flacketts thoughts on Rosemary's mindset in the final sequence in the boathouse. Here is what I see.

7 reasons to believe Rosemary felt as strongly as Gabe did in the last sequence

1) their feelings clearly grew toward each other throughout the movie. It was obvious in numerous scenes that Rosemary liked Gabe a lot. She even reached out for his hand. It seems unlikely that they would gone to such lengths to show she liked him, if she didn't like him at the end.
2) when sitting by herself at the wedding reception, Rosemary is clearly miserable. Then when she sees him she is first amazed but then overjoyed
3) when he asks her if she might wanna love him to, she doesn't actually deny it, like she would if she didn't have any feelings for him. she merely expresses her undertainty of what to think. This indicates that she clearly
liked him a lot. She just was confused about the idea of putting the label of "love" on it.
4) when she tells him she is very happy he came, her face brightens up
5) she then asks him to dance - something that is very difficult for somebody at that age
6) when they are dancing, she doens't merely hold on to him like a friend, she actually holds him close
7) in the final assessment, Gabe says that love ends - but in doing so, he doesn't say that it wasn't because she didn't like him, but because they were on different roads. That coupled with the phrase "we both knew" tends to indicate a mutual longing for what couldn't be, and a mutual acknowledgement of what had to be - thereby indicating that they knew they liked each other but sadly had to part.

My assessment is that Rosemary felt just as strongly as Gabe did, throughout the movie, and even in the final sequence. The problem was a matter of semantics - as an 11-year-old girl with loving parents (and their soap opera) as role models, her idea of love was undoubtedly idyllic - princesses and castles and rainbows - while Gabe's idea of love, as an 11-year-old boy who was emotionally panicked, was impulsive - "if I care for her it must be a love that has never before been experienced". She knew she wasn't sure what love was, and that his expression was a gross overstatement. He knew he was admitting his feelings. Their truth was somewhere in the middle. They both shared a strong "young love", which is not the same as "true love", but a budding embryo of emotions. But Rosemary was (ironically?) mature enough to know that the emotions they shared were not the full mature version that would come with age.

Some have suggested they parted as friends. I disagree - I think they parted as more than friends. I believe Rosemary will remember Gabe as her "first love" as well.

I can't help but feel that the dialogue would have been more mutually satisfying if Gabe had maintained the typical outlook of kids that age, relating to her on that level to which she knew, telling her that he really liked her, rather than the over-the-top exclamations of love that only served to confuse her more. She was just as emotionally wracked as he was.

I do wish they had included one more scene, of them parting at the end of the reception. It could have solidified their mutual longing for what could never be.

But then again, maybe I'm reading into the ending what I need to rather than what was intended.