Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[QUOTE]Actually years ago part of the initiation ceremony of being made was that you slit your finger and your "sponser" slit his and then the both of you touched fingers, mixing the blood, hence becoming "one" in the mob, bloodbrothers, This was known as taking " The blood oath!" One of the steps in your initiation into the family.
Don Cardi 
They stopped doing this since the advent of AIDS and herpes. Now, before the finger-slitting, both the inductee and the sponsor must submit proof that they've been using condums for at least seven years.
