<human>: Ok so to begin there is this girl and she was my really close friend. I started liking her and incidentally she started liking me back and we started dating and boy we hit it right off. I was so happy with her and for a while she seemed to feel that way too. Only last week I started feeling that she was becoming distant and cold especially during one of our dates and a few days ago she broke up with me.

She said that the reason was her. She didn't like the idea of a commitment and feels like she is not mature enough to handle a relationship and she felt that she was being unfair to me as I was really serious about it. She did not want to drag it out for longer as it would just hurt me more.

I feel like that is a valid excuse but right now I am terribly sad. When she broke up she stressed many times how she really liked me as a person and thinks that I'm a great guy and loves to hang out with me. She told me that she'll give me some space (as it's summer vacation right now) and as soon as school starts, she wants to be really close friends again.

The thing is I totally feel the same way. I really like her as a person and even if we can't be dating I still want to strive to return to being really good friends. The only issue is that right now I am agonizingly sad. I think about her all the time and I'm afraid that if we start talking again and even hanging out again I'll just lead myself on and hurt myself. How should I deal with this and how can I ensure that I only view her platonically?

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: Girl I love breaks up with me for an understandable reason. We both still want to remain really close friends. How can I do that without hurting myslef?