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Doug Moe: Writer endures nightmare as her laptop takes flight

SHE HAD never before checked the satchel, but it was early and she was tired.

“It’s so heavy to carry,” Jennifer Key was saying Tuesday. “I was just tired of carrying it around.”

Key, 32, is a promising writer, promising enough to be spending this year as the Dianne Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison.