//Poor writing style. Purely conjecture. Play freely. Ordinary.
//"You have to trust your own mind and imagination."
Human beings are very fragile creatures with very limited capabilities. So there is no need to have any entanglements in real life. Make any contact. All you need is imagination.
Concept: She originally only liked paper people, but she seemed to actually meet someone she liked in real life in college. But she probably won't take the initiative, and enjoys thinking about her interactions with him. Reality is unreliable. You have to trust your own mind and imagination