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He was her father?
Johanna Barker had spent many an hour in her childood fantasizing about her family. What did her parents look like? Where did they live? What was her father's profession?These questions dance through her mind tantalizingly, like a juicy bone hovering in the imagination of a small puppy. Only Johanna's bone was information. These questions always seemed innocent enough, for she knew that the answers would never be revealed to her.
But now they were.
Down in what used to be Mrs. Lovett's pie shop, the day that Antony had run away with her, the boy who lived there, who Johanna heard was now insane, had told her and Antony that he had heard the barber who lived upstairs, Sweeney Todd, yelling the name Benjamin Barker, not two minutes before they (being Johanna and Antony) had arrived. Later, in the cellar, Todd (according to the boy) had been holding the corpse of a beggar woman and crying "Lucy." When the child had told her this, she had raced into the cellar herself, to find the bodies of many, including Todd. The old woman who had lingered outside her bedroom window for as long as she could remember was clutched to his chest, as tightly as a dead man can hold. Also were the bodies of the Beadle and Judge Turpin.
Everthing slid into place, in that one moment, as if a jigsaw puzzle constructer had suddenly had a epiphany. Her surname was Barker. Her mother's name had been Lucy. The Judge was probably the one who had so savagely ripped apart her family. Todd had killed the Judge for revenge. Sweeney Todd was her father.
Antony later revealed that Todd had told him the story of a barber being cruelly torn from his family by a Judge, about fifteen years before. That just confirmed her suspicions. She was fifteen years old.
It was no mater now. In a number of days, she was to become Mrs. Johanna Hope. In the spirit of her soon-to-be new surname, she hoped that she and her fiancee might be able to put the pas behind them and live normal, fulfilling lives.
Of course, she was wrong.
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