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Flat Stanley began with a fear of being crushed
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The beloved paper cutout you mailed across the globe in elementary school has incredibly dark origins. The creator wrote the original book after his son expressed a genuine, paralyzing terror of a heavy bulletin board crushing him in his sleep. Making the victim a cheerful paper traveler was apparently the perfect coping mechanism.
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