A silly memory triggered

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I became blood brothers  when I was in 5th grade with a boy named Michael. I can't recall his last name to save my life now, but at the time I considered him close enough to me to become a blood brother with. We didn't even  pause to rationalize the whole I was female so couldn't be a brother argument- we were blood brothers- bound now by our sharing of blood.

I wonder if children still do this and what, if anything, it means to them.