The incident blew over, until two weeks later when an accident completely shattered my worldview.
That afternoon, I went out for afternoon tea with my best friend.
She's an old hand, and after we ate and drank our fill, she suddenly smiled and said, "Oh right Clara, let me show you something interesting!"
Judging by her mischievous grin, I figured it was probably some funny gossip or juicy scandal.
Sure enough, she showed me a short video on her phone.
Winking, she said, "Clara, look at this guy, doesn't he look like your Ford?"
I took a look, and sure enough, he did resemble Ford.
Ford has thick eyebrows and a wide, high forehead.
Even with black bars over his eyes, I could still vaguely make out the strong resemblance.
My friend laughed breathlessly, "Clara, could it be that your mom asked for too high a bride price back then and drove Ford to sell his body?"
I laughed along with her, "Yeah, with Ford's looks, even the $80,000 bride price my mom demanded would have been too little!"
"$80,000? Your mom bragged she got over $300,000!"
I didn't respond to the rest of her words, because just as my friend was about to put her phone away, I noticed the woman had a beauty mark on her chin.