This story feels like an episode of MTV's Catfish, take a look at what Deadspin.com said:
"...Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded
to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop
reading.
Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall.
Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to
Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA
record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other.
Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no
obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the
Stanford student newspaper.
Nor is there any report of a severe
auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up
nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay
Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news.
Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online
evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed."
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