Serendipity and coins

Coins were a special part of Sweeney Todd.
Tobiases got them from customers, the Mrs. Lovetts counted them and put them down their shirt, while other London citizens gave them away to the always collecting Beggar Women.
I was one of such Beggar Women.

When the show was running, one of my favorite activities to do backstage while waiting to go on was to play/count the coins I had collected so far in my little alms dish. These varied from show to show, and included everything from what seemed to be actual British coins to fake currency made out of shiny plastic.

During the last of my coin-counts, I was baffled when I picked up a one that seemed to speak to me in a particular way... A VERY direct way.
Upon its finding, part of my brain thought that my method acting exercises had taken me to the verge of madness. However, closer investigation allowed me to prove that I was not mad at all. I was just the [very] lucky recipient of a serendipitous event.

How awesome is THAT?!

Regardless to say... I dared to keep such coin.
And no one will take it away from me.
(My precioussssssssss)


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