@RodrickSage the version of her you had in your mind is surely better than the actual person you had a crush on. That's often how infatuation works. We fall in love with our imagination. She was essentially a waifu in your mind with a real world equivalent, but those two people were never the same. The waifu in your mind was what you loved and you projected that waifu onto her.
The trick is that your waifu still exists in your mind and we have sex dolls and AI waifus now, so go live the dream.