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Why doesn't Hawking radiation add to the mass of a black hole just as much as it subtracts from it?

If 'quantum foam'-generated particles are made of matter and antimatter in equal amounts, why don't the matter particles that fall into the black hole add to the black hole's mass just as much as the antimatter particles subtract from it?

How, then, can the black hole evaporate due to Hawking radiation?

P.S.: Someone else asked a very similar question, but it was never answered....