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I am a seventh-generation Florida Cracker, a product of Green Cove Springs, a small town in Florida that P.T. Barnum called "this salubrious and almost enchanted" place."Salubrious" means health-giving, pleasant, delightful, and Green Cove Springs is all of those things. However, I must part ways with Mr. Barnum, and contend that the place is most certainly enchanted, with no "almost" about it. I ended the Cracker legacy of my family by moving out of state as a young woman.When my mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2008, I came back more frequently to be with and care for her. Three years later, my husband committed suicide. As a way to heal, I returned to my hometown for extended stays, and immersed myself in a life I had left decades ago.This memoir is my heart song, a tribute to the beautiful, quirky place from where I came, the place that embraced and sheltered me when I needed a safe haven for a while.

Consistent with the character of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University's motto, "Pro Humanitate" ("For Humanity"), the story line of STRONG MEDICINE could simply state, "WFU Health Sciences' new research and medical education campus downtown to lead two-hundred-plus-acre Piedmont Triad Research Park expansion and spur community's economic revitalization. Indeed, only some thirty acres of undeveloped land was needed to solve the medical school's chronic space needs. The decision to both meet that need and energize the economy with the simultaneous transformation of Winston-Salem's blighted entry to its eastern downtown, then composed of long- vacant tobacco factories, abandoned rail lines, an eyesore of a concrete production plant, and fields of Kudzu vines, echoes the medical school's historic and landmark 1941 relocation. This narrative's aim is to provide a firsthand description of the reasoning, events, complexities, and critical engagements of team members, community leaders, and government officials that composed the Wake Forest University Health Sciences' PTRP expansion initiative through its first decade of development, from 2002 to 2012.