Find closest previous element jQuery

Question

I am wanting something similar to this person, except the element I want to match might not be a direct sibling.

If I had this HTML, for example,

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Answer 1

see http://api.jquery.com/prev/

var link = $("#me").parent("div").prev("h3").find("b");
alert(link.text());

see http://jsfiddle.net/gBwLq/