Dang, Bobert, if you didn't actually utter the forbidden word. Why is everyone so awkward about saying that a good friendship is based on love? If a friendship is anchored in love, as the Carter Family put it, honesty will only be expressed as a way of helping a friend and forgiveness goes with the package... even helping someone to move or agreeing on how to feed cats. In order to have a true friendship, you need that selflessness that only love can give.

And of faith, hope and love, the greatest of these is love.

Without love, none of us is good enough to BE a true friend.

Jerry