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You might try a little humor: "soul-brother"; "the brother I never knew I had"; "the brother my parents never knew I had", etc.
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> "the brother I never knew I had"; "the brother my parents never knew I had", etc. Touchy subject in this DNA-test age...! 
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I like the compadre and comadre words..altho i think it'll be easier to introduce the two if you are able to say "comadre" first. Everyone (including me up to 5 minutes ago here) thinks they know what a compadre is... Home boy is good but I'd only use that in certain situations.... "Brother from another mother" might fit your bill... btw...just stumbled across this board after knowing the defintion of Anthropomophic in a game of cranium last night but not having the conviction to talk my team (the men) out of saying the defintion was an insect evolving to another stage...  Looking forward to learning and hoping I can contribute.
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> I can contribute
Welcome mistermatt. Draw up a chair. If you can't draw, just sit.
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I like the compadre and comadre words..altho i think it'll be easier to introduce the two if you are able to say "comadre" first. Everyone (including me up to 5 minutes ago here) thinks they know what a compadre is...
Agreed. The more I think about it, though, these two words may work (and I'll probably use them until I/we find something else. However, there's one part of the definition I have a problem with, and it is this that makes me hesitant.
"... you would trust with the life and wellbeing of your child, whether that person is a godparent to your child or not or even if you had a child or not." A couple of these people I mentioned I love dearly, but I'm not sure that I would trust them with the life and wellbeing of my child. I'm not sure they're that responsible.
So, I guess I'm looking for something that has a similar meaning, but does not convey that sense of trusting them with the life of my child. See my original post for more details.
Wow! This is harder than I thought it would be to find.
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Though dated, I like bosom buddy, too. It's very self-explanatory.
Also, saying "This is Paul, one of my best friends" will also convey the closeness you feel to this person without having to explain anything, na?
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So, Belgarion...have you read the whole series? Pretty great read, eh?
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I find that the term " one of my people" is very useful, I a playful way. I kind of like to use it as a playful poke at the idea of elitism, etc. When I say it to my wife, I might mean my male friends that I meet for coffee. As in" My people don't really drink anything but straight espresso" The same with "your people" As in " your people love to discuss emotions, don't they. I like to think of it as referring to my pack of hound dogs.
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"... you would trust with the life and wellbeing of your child, whether that person is a godparent to your child or not or even if you had a child or not." A couple of these people I mentioned I love dearly, but I'm not sure that I would trust them with the life and wellbeing of my child. I'm not sure they're that responsible.
Compadre and comadre are also used in a shallower context. I'm sure my mother-in-law would have objected quite strenuously to some of my father-in-law's "compadres" as guardians of her children! Primo/a means cousin and is another word that is used frequently for this type of friendship.
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I have just such a friend. He is my "brother from another mother".
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