Story of Te’o’s Girlfriend Is Said to Be a Hoax

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5. According to Deadspin, they met -- on

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Nov. 28, 2009: Te'o and Kekua meet after Stanford's 45-38 victory over Notre Dame in Palo Alto, according to the South Bend Tribune: "Their stares got pleasantly tangled, then Manti Te'o extended his hand to the stranger with a warm smile and soulful eyes." Kekua, a Stanford student, swaps phone numbers with Te'o.

...Te'o's father, Brian, told the Tribune in October 2012 "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there"...His grandma, Annette Santiago, died after a long illness...according to the Oct. 12 South Bend Tribune...Lennay lives long enough to express condolences over the death of Annette...

Manti Te'o and Lennay Kekua did not meet at Stanford in 2009. The real beginning of their relationship apparently occurred on Twitter, as an encounter between @MTeo_5 and @lovalovaloveYOU, on Oct. 10, 2011...This week, we got in touch with a woman living in Torrance, Calif. We'll call her Reba, to protect her identity. She was initially confused, then horrified to find that she had become the face of a dead woman. "That picture," she told us over the phone, "is a picture of me from my Facebook account."

Now I'm supposed to believe that he AND his family were victims of an online hoaxer -- a hoaxer that it turns out he knew? I think ND is doing a little "washing" of its own. And I hope Te'o is sent to a psychologist before he's allowed to play again.


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