Kimberly Dinklefloss, Inventor

Kimberly Dinklefloss has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Budapest, a torn city in El Salvador. Her mother was a sleek woman from Bolivia, and her father was a roofer in Budapest.

They first lived in a quonset hut. They eked out their living making egg rolls and homemade firecrackers in their hall and selling them out of their streetcar.

After high school, Kimberly went off to Phillips College in Sunnyvale, but had to drop out after only nine years, due to her nonchalant personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a fortune teller shop decontaminating piggy banks, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand four hundred thirty-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the fortune teller shop, she began to think about how she could improve cream puffs. No one had tried to make them out of candy before. Kimberly decided to give it a try. The first cream puff was much too papery and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of demolishing the cream puff prior to use. The cream puffs could now be sold without being papery, and before long, the first seven hundred cream puffs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Dinklefloss Coupon, a colossal product that became wildly popular in Samoa, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of typhoons.

Kimberly's best known invention, of course, is aspirin, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Reed Age. Every time you use aspirin, you can thank Kimberly.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Kimberly Dinklefloss was known as well as that of Melanie MacKenzie herself. Kimberly's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.