A matchmaker had arranged for her to marry a man on Tahiti whom she had never met but who had paid for her boat ticket.
那年她十五歲，經人作媒嫁到大溪地，船票還是素未謀面的丈夫幫她買的，「不知另一半是老嫩、高矮，有沒有眼瞎、腳跛… …」。結果她見到她先生的第一個反應是：怎麼那麼高大！