She was beautiful, brainy, brave — and really unlucky.
A tantalizing portrait has emerged of Lennay Kekua, the doomed character at the center of the Manti Te’o hoax.
Te’o says he now knows his online girlfriend was “someone’s sick joke,” and Notre Dame says she was “fictitious.” Muddying the waters, an NFL player claims to have met the woman, or at least someone using her name, in the flesh.
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