Manti Te’o

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_Te%27o#Girlfriend_hoax

http://deadspin.com/ronaiah-tuiasosopo-sued-over-the-one-true-thing-he-told-1440379017

This is a fascinating story.

Some of the participants made legitimate news because they are newsworthy, and in this case they are very respectable.  Others are seemingly from the other, or wrong, side of town.  They are different.

It is also one of those things that may very well happen hundreds of times a day, but the only time you hear about is when it happens to a celebrity and makes news.  The voices and messages and all that notwithstanding, this is a story about a young man falling in love with someone online.