re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)

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Reagan Mauia, a fullback for the Arizona Cardinals, told ESPN.com that he met Lennay Kekua when he, fellow Polynesian teammates and Steelers star Troy Polamalu did charity work in American Samoa in June 2011.
"This was before her and Manti," Mauia said. "I don't think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. I am close to her family. When she was going through the loss of her father, I was -- I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. That was just from meeting her in Samoa."

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"She was tall," he said. "Volleyball-type of physique. She was athletic, tall, beautiful. Long hair. Polynesian. She looked like a model.”
Mauia said that it was his understanding that Kekua’s mother, who he had never met, is operating her Twitter account. When told by a reporter that she apparently did not exist, Mauia said, “No, she is real.”

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I don't even know what to think about this

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Te'o definitely knew at some point that it wasn't real and he kept lying.

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Yeah, and I think that will eventually come out. And that will be the downfall of all this. He may not have come up with this, but he knew it was a hoax at some point.

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