<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

I'm trying to be vague here, since the other person involved is a redditor. This is not a "help me win him over" post, but more of a "hey reddit, can I have some help on seeing his side of things"? Anyways, the story:

I [f-18] have been talking to this guy [22] for a few months now. He's really great: makes me smile a lot, we have a lot of the same interests, he's really (...really) cute, etc. He was living a bit far away, but was in the process of getting ready to move back up to where I live. We had talked of being "more than friends" and things seemed to be going quite well. I've been in nothing but horrible, crash and burn relationships, so I tried my best to not get my hopes up about anything, but he won me over a little easier than I thought. Fast forward a couple of months and he's back in my area. We've hung out a few times, and all went well-nothing forward or "relationshippy" (other than holding hands at one point and him having his arm around me a couple times). Then a few nights ago he told me that he just wants to be friends, due to our age gap, and the fact that I'm going to be living about an hour away for school next semester. I held myself together until I got home, but as much as it sucked to hear it I'm not going to let it ruin our friendship-I feel like getting rid of that would put me in a worse position, even if I do like him on a higher level. I can't help but think about it though (silly girl crushes, ugh). Being around him makes me so happy, and I thought things were fine until the other night, when all of this "friend zone" stuff came out of nowhere.
<bot>: Got friend zoned by guy crush out of nowhere after talking for a few months, not sure how to interpret the reasoning, or if I'm just looking for a deeper meaning than what is actually going on.