1973 (#8) - The past of Sally and Frank, Susan’s adoption

Sally Mc Guire becomes friend with Brad, who lives next to her in Pierre's motel and shares with him her most deepest secrets with him. Brad knows very well that Sally's world revolves around Snapper, with whom she is secretly in love and he is also aware of her former relationship with Frank Martin, from which Susan Martin was born, the baby was given up for adoption seven years earlier. Frank Martin suddenly reappears in Genoa City and in Sally's life, all that threw her world in turmoil. Frank asks Sally for help to find their daughter and to heal the emptiness of her current childless marriage with Rita Martin, thus proposing to take care of their child. Precisely from Snapper, who works in the hospital, Sally is able to discover that Susan was adopted by the nurse Jane Wilcox. In the next weeks Sally and Frank threw themselves together in the search of the little girl. This adventure with Sally makes Frank open his eyes again, he understands that he wants a reconciliation with Sally and that he wants to divorce his current wife. After all, finding the little girl, would definitely reunite his family with Sally and Susan! Once traced, Jane Wilcox, engaged to a man named Steve Courtney, refuses to give up on little Susan. In addition, Steve, not being aware of the adoption, thought that Susan was his legitimate daughter. When the truth comes out, Steve refuses to be the adoptive father of a child that it’s not his own; and Jane, fond of the little girl, decides to leave Steve.