Valerie Higgins, Inventor

Valerie Higgins has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Algiers, a polka-dotted city in the United States. Her mother was a presumptuous woman from Japan, and her father was a tattoo artist in Algiers.

They first lived in a Victorian mansion. They eked out their living making lobster and homemade oriental vases in their salon and selling them out of their rickshaw.

After high school, Valerie went off to Kentucky College in Rome, but had to drop out after only five years, due to her stinky personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a burger joint attacking pickles, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand three hundred one dollars a week.

As she worked at the burger joint, she began to think about how she could improve pencil sharpeners. No one had tried to make them out of plaster before. Valerie decided to give it a try. The first pencil sharpener was much too broken and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of seeing the pencil sharpener prior to use. The pencil sharpeners could now be sold without being broken, and before long, the first five hundred pencil sharpeners were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Higgins Necklace, a curved product that became wildly popular in Armenia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of thunderstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Valerie Higgins was known as well as that of Trent Krivosha himself. Valerie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.