Getting my hopes up

Basically I was seeing this girl towards the end of 2nd year at Uni. It was all good until we left to go home for the summer. Whilst talking on Facebook on two separate occasions, I said things which I hadn't fully thought about which upset and hurt her. Since then she's decided that it would be better if we remained friends as she didn't want to get hurt again. (She's been hurt a lot by guys previously) We're still really good friends but I don't know if I should keep my hopes alive of something happening between us. She said today that nothing will happen again but there is chemistry between us and I don't know whether she's saying that due to the distance between us and that without us seeing each other, it's very hard to have a relationship. The other dilemma I have is that I don't want to take advantage of our friendship and force it into a relationship when she's not fully comfortable with it. Don't know what to do :S

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