For better or for worse Grandma Lin is 65 this year. Originally from Chiaohsi in Ilan County, she married into Chiufen through a matchmaker when she was twenty. By the time she was 38, she and her gold miner husband had had eleven children.
林婆婆今年六十五歲了，原來是宜蘭礁溪人，二十歲時憑著媒妁之言嫁到了九份，到卅八歲，一共為採金的丈夫生下十一個兒女。