I don't think she really knows what she wants.  Either that or I give her far far to little credit.  She wants to be friends... she wants the intimacy... she wants to be strong... but she wants people to help her along with that.  I feel like she wants an impossibility.  I'm sure of it, in fact, in regards to the immedieatly being friends bullshit.

A couple of mistakes on my part.
YES - I did deny any desire for a quarentine period before reentering a friendship.
NO - I haven't brought the subject up once I realized that I DID want said period.
YES - I should have told her and not just remained distant.

But I feel like tonight I walked into an ambush.  I went over knowing that she wanted to talk, but not at all realizing that she had her entire speech planned out and that I was to be subjected to its apperently unerring words.  I freely admit my mistakes, but everyone who I've talked to about it is right... there HAS to be that period of absence before resuming friendship.  And you can't just jump right back into the deep end and be best friends after dating... certainly not after such a long and close relationship.

The ball is in your court, kid.  We will see each other again, we are too mutually involved to avoid that.  Hopefully when that day comes we will start a new friendship.
The old one is forever gone, and that's a shame.
It would equally be a shame to not plant a new one.