Mrs. MacDonald, a former physical education instructor at the Taipei American School who now lives with her husband in America, recalls with a laugh the apocalyptic warning her father delivered when her boy-friend approached her parents to ask for her hand in marriage: "We Chinese don't like divorce. If you ever abandon our daughter, our family will kill you!"
曾在美國學校教體育、現已隨老公返美的麥當勞太太，提起當年男友到家裡提親時就好笑，原來她老爹對準女婿說：「我們中國人不喜歡離婚，如果你將來拋棄我女兒，我們全家會『殺』掉你！」