Thank you for your kind comments. She did unblock me for the most part (except for private messaging at this point), so I am taking your advice - just be polite, don't veer back into asking for anything more personal than that. At this point I can at least see the potential for repairing the basic friendship of being in the same group while I work out what is going on with me - I seem to have a pattern (possibly rescue fantasies) of latching onto women who spark that in me when they give me attention that I interpret as allowing for intimate sharing.

Thanks again.