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The first place in Ohio that I lived after leaving the Chicagoland area, where I lived from ages 5 through 10, was Middletown, Ohio. I attended Vail Middle School there, which was an all-Black middle school, and I lived in a townhouse community that was mostly Black residents. Before that, I lived in a townhouse community in Grand Island, New York, near Niagara Falls, where most of the residents were minorities, and my next-door neighbor was Black. In Chicago, I worked primarily on the South Side for many years, and most of my patients were Black.