Remember the actual death of Lizzy Seeberg?

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But perhaps the strangest and queasiest thing about the ubiquity of this spectacularly strange and queasy story is how much more attention the imaginary death of Te’o's imaginary girlfriend has received than the actual death of Lizzy Seeberg. Seeberg accused a Notre Dame football player whose name was never made public and who was never charged of sexual assault in 2010. She later committed suicide after an alleged campaign of harassment by players and school officials. A campus disciplinary hearing on the sexual assault charges took place, and the player was found “not responsible.”

Notre Dame Scandal: Family of Lizzy Seeberg Speaks Out
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The parents of the college freshmen who committed suicide after claiming she'd been assaulted by a Notre Dame football player feel betrayed by the university that's been attended by generations of their family members. "This isn't a matter of someone stealing a laptop or a beer bust, this is a very serious allegation," said Tom Seeberg, father of Lizzy Seeberg. "This started in September, there were still leaves on trees and here we are with snowstorms and as I say, here we are." Lizzy, a 19-year-old student at Notre Dame's sister school, St. Mary's College, took her life Sept. 10, days after she reported to university police that she'd been improperly touched by a football player on the night of August 31.

Comment: Also Reported sexual assault at Notre Dame campus leaves more questions than answers

Meanwhile: More on the Manti Te'o story:
Manti Te'o in his own words

SI: How do you want her to be remembered?

TE'O: Lennay was so special. Her relationship with the heavenly father was so strong. She's so humble, hard working. And her main thing was her family. Her family was everything to her. As long as she took care of her family. And as long as she knew that her relationship with our heavenly father was strong, she had faith that everyone would work out. With her it was just always loving God and her family. I was just blessed to be part of that.

Comment: Media should not ignore a real young woman who really lived and died!

The bizarre case of the nonexistent girlfriend

For Notre Dame, an Inspiration That Wasn't Real
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A University of Notre Dame football star received broad public sympathy last fall over the death of a girlfriend who turns out not to have existed.

The sports website Deadspin reported Wednesday that Lennay Kekua, the supposed girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, never existed, even as media outlets ran articles last fall about Mr. Te'o's inspiring on-field performances in the wake of what was said to be her death in September.

Both Mr. Te'o and Notre Dame acknowledged Wednesday that Lennay Kekua, who was said to have been a Stanford University student, was a hoax. Both Mr. Te'o and the school described the player as a victim of that hoax. "Over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her," said Mr. Te'o's statement.

In a news conference Wednesday, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Mr. Te'o told the school that he learned of the hoax in the first week of December, when he received a phone call from the number he had associated with Lennay Kekua. The voice he knew to be the woman's told Mr. Te'o that she wasn't dead. "Manti was very unnerved by that, as you may imagine," Mr. Swarbrick said.

Comment: I think I may have been in love with a soriety girl like this back when I was a freshman in college! ABC news calls it being "catfished". Of course we all want to see picture of the beauty. Oh never mind! (Didn't help 'em with Bama!)

Deadspin article that broke the hoax. More from Slate. Leave dating tips for Manti in the comments.

Update: Nine Questions | Timeline

Now here's a question (article):

According to WSBT-TV, Te’o made reference to his dead girlfriend two days after the day he supposedly learned of the hoax. “I don’t like cancer at all. I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer,” Te’o said on December 8, while talking to reporters in advance of the Heisman Trophy ceremony.