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'Bachelor' Alum Recalls Learning Her Birth Family Thought She Was Dead

The Bachelor alum Alicia Mae Holloway is sharing her adoption story. “[My parents] used The Jungle Book. They were like, ‘You know how Mowgli is adopted by the animals? That’s how you were adopted,’” Holloway, 29, told People in a Tuesday, May 5, profile. “I was like, ‘Oh, OK, makes perfect sense.’” Holloway was adopted as a baby by a couple in West Virginia, which often led to questions about her family history. “I just remember sitting on my dad’s lap crying,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Do my birth parents remember me? Does my birth mom know about me?’” By 18, Holloway’s parents shared deta...