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Photo of the Day: January 27

By Carolyn Freeman
January 27, 2013
Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o was recently the victim of a hoax in which he thought his girlfriend had died. It turned out that he had never met the girl, and that someone was posing as her online. Te'o claims to be unaware of the hoax. Graphic by Billy Lenkin.

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