Among Madeline Reeves' personal items was a heart pendant that Nina Reeves had as a kid. It had been split in half, and she felt that finding it was a sign that she had a daughter who was still alive somewhere, with the other half. Meanwhile, Valentin hired private investigator Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner) to locate Nina's long-lost daughter, and he paid Sasha to come to Port Charles in 2018 to pretend to be her. She accepted because she desperately needed cash to care for her ill grandmother. When Madeline's funeral was held, Valentin secretly secured some of Sasha's DNA which he later used to make it appear that she was Nina's biological daughter. Meanwhile, Nina was skeptical because Sasha had never even seen the other half of the heart-shaped pendant in her life.
Then, Nina's aunt, Dr. Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati), discovered what Valentin was up to and blackmailed him into convincing the dastardly villain Peter August (Wes Ramsey) to drop charges he had filed against her after she tortured him. Valentin had planned to have Sasha simply meet with Nina, then leave Port Charles. However, after a time, Sasha liked the idea of being her daughter since she didn't have much family of her own and decided to stay. When the DNA test that Valentin had tampered with proved the two women were mother and daughter, Nina accepted Sasha and was thrilled to finally have a child.
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