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Woman learns her adoptive mom had secretly been writing to her biological mother for 17 years

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Alicia Mae Holloway was conceived during an affair her birth mom had with a white woman, married to a white man, with three white children.

Her birth mom feared what her racist family might do upon seeing a biracial baby, and told everyone that it was a stillborn.

Holloway 's adoptive mom, Evelyn , secretly wrote to her biological mom every six months .

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45

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36

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64

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

48

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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