"Rain fell that day...and as it was raining so I was crying."

Married on September 4th, 1949.

By the 1940's, there were clear hierarchies between those who had access to education and opportunities, and those that did not. Many of those whose fates were still tied to the land found themselves at a disadvantage in the new colonial social landscape. Many with education, found a path out of generational disenfranchisement through work in the Civil Service. Jobs in the civil service brought access to loans and home ownership - wealth.  But new emergence of a brown middle class brought with it evolving stigmas as well.

Silla found herself caught in the grip of  stigma when she married her husband. Her husband-to-be was a civil servant. She was a poor girl from a rural area. She didn't have the education that he did, nor did she have the financial promise. 

They've been married now for 67 years.

But as she tells us here, their future wasn't always certain.