According to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, the word candidly (adjective) means expressing opinions and feelings in an honest and sincere way. We can find this word in “Allowing teenage boys to love their friends”, in paragraph #9, it state, “Boys in early adolescence would speak candidly about those friendships to Dr. Way and her researchers, acknowledging the importance of having a best friend who was both repository and guard for their most private feelings”. According to this sentence it trying to tell us that boys are also allows to have friends to talk about their problems and their feelings like girls do. Also, boys are allow to have feelings for their friend and showed to them that their care so they can have that support whenever they feel down.