Kelly Garcia, Inventor

Kelly Garcia has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Sacramento, an imitation city in Netherlands. His mother was a sarcastic woman from Cuba, and his father was a nurse in Sacramento.

They first lived in a resort. They eked out their living making scrambled eggs and homemade cell phones in their living room and selling them out of their Infiniti.

After high school, Kelly went off to Blake College in Topeka, but had to drop out after only four years, due to his weary personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pub opening microphones, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the pub, he began to think about how he could improve dictionaries. No one had tried to make them out of denim before. Kelly decided to give it a try. The first dictionary was much too tiny and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of slashing the dictionary prior to use. The dictionaries could now be sold without being tiny, and before long, the first two hundred dictionaries were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Garcia Yo-yo, a dry product that became wildly popular in Cambodia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of driving rainstorms.

Kelly's best known invention, of course, is crayons, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Limestone Age. Every time you use crayons, you can thank Kelly.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Kelly Garcia was known as well as that of Marvella O'Brien herself. Kelly's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.