"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage." wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere." Emerson also noted that a person can count himself lucky if during the course of their lifetime, he can forge even two or three true friendships, the union of heart and spirit, tempered by honesty, trust and understanding. And, free of jealousy...