Imagination, curiosity, and an appreciation for law enforcement led a Pennsylvania third grader to send a paper Flat Stanley to police departments across the United States. His most recent trip?

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“Send it to Aunt Tracy. That’s right in her wheelhouse.” Following his father’s advice, my nephew Josh placed the Flat Stanley he had created in his Ohio second-grade classroom into a manila envelope ...

He has done time at Alcatraz, circled the planet aboard the space shuttle, posed for snapshots with President Bush and accompanied Clint Eastwood to the Oscars. Flat Stanley, the world-famous paper ...