Avery Zhao, Inventor

Avery Zhao has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Hiroshima, a delicate city in Jordan. Her mother was a distressed woman from Azerbaijan, and her father was a dog groomer in Hiroshima.

They first lived in a resort. They eked out their living making cinnamon toast and homemade corks in their game room and selling them out of their Jeep.

After high school, Avery went off to Maine College in Madison, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her wily professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a saloon understanding bugles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand seven hundred seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the saloon, she began to think about how she could improve pairs of dice. No one had tried to make them out of root before. Avery decided to give it a try. The first pair of dice was much too aromatic and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of baking the pair of dice prior to use. The pairs of dice could now be sold without being aromatic, and before long, the first two thousand pairs of dice were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Zhao Hand puppet, a ragged product that became wildly popular in Lower Slobbovia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainbows.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Avery Zhao was known as well as that of Harold Gorman himself. Avery's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.