Greg also imagines himself being flat and Rodrick putting him in a paper shredder, saying that he bets that if Flat Stanley had a brother like Rodrick, he wouldn't survive a whole day. Not long after (presumably second grade) Rowley asks Greg if he wants to sleep in his bed, but the bulletin board above made him forfeit. The story gave Greg a 'deathly fear' of bulletin boards.

After that, the cutout never returned to Greg. Susan had mailed it to her cousin Stacey in Seattle, who put him in a storage of newspapers and magazines, because she is always hoarding stuff like newspapers and magazines. Susan Heffley takes a cutout with herself to take photos of it, but Greg doesn't like them. In the second grade Greg Heffley and his class each got a paper cut-out of him, which they had to color and send to a relative who lives far away and they have to take a photo of him in front of something. He appears in The Long Haul and was mentioned in The Meltdown. Flat Stanley is a character from a real-life novel who got crushed with a bulletin board at night making him thin as paper which allow him to fold himself, mail himself and have his brother fly him as a kite.

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