Two thoughts:

1) She is all shades of lovely.

2) I am friends with some people who have belittled me, dragged me down, scared me, indimidated me, guilt-tripped me, emotionally blackmailed me, bullied me, tore apart what I considered my world to be at the time and generally been quite unpleasant towards me.

If I can still be friends with THEM, why shouldn't I be friends with the woman I was madly in love with for two years?