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V.S. rapper talks struggle and healing Ulysse formed a tough exterior. “If you share what you feel, you’re marked, you’re a target,” From Flatbush, Brooklyn, to Ulysse said. Valley Stream, from depression He took to rap and hip-hop as into hopefulness — his outlet for release. rapper Jesse “PicaS“I was always into so Sight” Ulysse, 34, hip-hop without cannot be labeled, knowing I was into but aspires one day hip-hop . . . Being to be on a record born in Flatbush, label. After he Brooklyn, you’re moved to Valley kind of born into it, Stream at age 12, he whether you ask for remembers students it or not,” Ulysse envying his Brooks a i d , re s o n at i n g lyn upbringing. with the rap songs Many of them were of Jay-Z and Nas. captivated by the But though he romanticized culwas long interested ture of rampant in writing raps, he drugs and violence wouldn’t do so until plaguing his home he and his family borough. In reality, m ove d t o s a f e r, walking its menacfriendlier Valley ing, poverty-stricken JEssE ‘PiCAsso Stream — where, for streets was an altothe first time, Ulysse g e t h e r d i f f e r e n t siGHt’ UlYssE felt he was able to let story. his guard down, to V.S. rapper “You might meet “take off my armor.” someone when “Coming to Valyou’re walking and not know ley Stream, I saw all it afforded what [that person is carrying] in me,” he said. Ulysse recalled gettheir big clothes,” Ulysse said. ting serious about writing In a world where any show of rhymes at Memorial Junior emotional vulnerability or self- High School, showing his first expression was looked down high school English teacher, Lee upon and punished, the young Continued on page 20
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As mEDiCAl DiRECtoR of LIJ Valley Stream Hospital, Dr. Angel Meng will oversee the facility’s clinical staff and the advanced care practitioner, case management and social work teams.
LIJ hospital welcomes new medical director By JUAN lAsso jlasso@liherald.com
While growing up in Taipei, Taiwan, as the daughter of a Taiwanese diplomat, Dr. Angel Meng, 42, spent four years of her childhood with her family in Malawi, Africa, as part of her father’s work. In Malawi, she witnessed firsthand how a lack of proper medical care affected her family and her makeshift community. “I remember while we
were in Malawi, we only had one physician who took care of the embassy workers and the locals in the community,” Meng said. “And if he was sick or had to travel, we didn’t have any medical resources.” When her mother had kidney stones, she was brought to a hospital that was “pretty much an open field,” Meng said. Without the proper equipment, she suf fered excruciating pain in her abdomen and had to be flown
to Johannesburg, South Africa, for lithotripsy, a non-invasive medical procedure that destroys the hardened stones. While her mother recuperated, that moment and others like it were seared into Meng’s memory as she came to realize for the first time the importance of having proper medical necessities. It was a realization that would lead her to study medicine and find a community of Continued on page 9
never used to believe in myself at all . . . and now that is lifted out of my head. I know a lot of it was a lie and I bought it, and now the chains are off.