... So, put simply, this person had an image of who he expected you to be, but despite your best efforts to live up to those expectations, the person you truly are showed through.

[ It's a truly impossible standard. Midnight, in the dark, is awfully quiet. ]

To be loved and loved in return are endeavors both far more possible and far more difficult than one might expect. I'm sorry that your love went unrequited. You, as you are, are not worth losing for the sake of a ghost, a memory. I hope you know that.