She was then to have a bone marrow transplant and told the Te'o family that she had been released to come home on Sept. The person posing as Kekua claimed at one point to have been in a serious auto accident, at which time her leukemia was diagnosed. Sadly, it won't happen now."Ĭalls and e-mails to Brian Te'o Wednesday night went unreturned. "And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. But within the last year, they became a couple. "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. "They started out as just friends," Brian Teo added. The detail included the touching of hands and the fact Manti thought she was cute. 10 with Te'o's parents, Brian and Ottilia, Te'o's father said the initial meeting between Manti and Kekua came in person in late November 2009, when Notre Dame played Stanford in Palo, Alto, Calif. He reasoned that Te'o's father, Brian, must have misunderstood his son's characterizations when speaking about the relationship roughly a month after the alleged death of Kekua. Swarbrick said the relationship was confined to online and telephone conversations only. Perhaps that will provide the missing pieces to a sordid and confusing story. was expected to add his voice to the story sometime today. Swarbrick said Te'o who completed his degree work in December and is working out for the NFL Combine in Bradenton, Fla. He was not a person who would have a second thought about offering his assistance and help in engaging fully." "In many ways, Manti was the perfect mark, because he is a guy who is so willing to believe in others and so ready to help that, as this hoax played out in a way that called upon those tendencies of Manti and roped him more and more into the trap. Manti is the victim of that hoax, and he will carry that with him for a while. "The first is that this was a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax perpetrated for reasons we can't fully understand but had a certain cruelty at its core, based on the exchanges that we were able to see between some of the people who perpetrated it. "While we still don't know all of the dimensions of this and other than the perpetrators, I can assure you that no one knows all of the dimensions of this there are certain things that I feel confident we do know," Swarbrick said. The linebacker played through the tragedy of, and eventually took inspiration from, that very real passing and the one that was created in a dark corner of cyberspace. Te'o's grandmother, Annette Santiago, did die on Sept.
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