True brotherhood is pure friendship, a feeling of kinship without the same blood.
But now, in four months, I have nine lifelong brothers. They have slept in my house, eaten from my family's table, experienced my heartaches and my smiles as well as I have experienced theirs. The nine of us have opened the front doors and cellars of our lives leaving our private and personal lives open and defenseless. We've come together with trust and respect each other. My eight pledge brothers may not have been born with my last name, but I do think of them in that way, and this is the only way I can explain brotherhood.