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From her vantage point as a participant, silat dancer Sabariah Ofnam, 43, reflected on her private journey to owning a pink identity card.
She was still a child when her father, a Singaporean, left his wife who hailed from Java, and their 10 children. Her mother, who toiled as a nanny, yearned to call Singapore home.
Finally, in 1975, at a ceremony, then-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew personally gave out citizenship papers to successful applicants, including her mother.
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