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Begfhn wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Begfhn wrote: In 5X02, Snow says her mother taught her how to dance when she was 8. This implies her mother was still alive. However, in The Stable Boy Leopold says his wife died a couple of years ago. Snow is 10 at this point and Eva died on her birthday. The only explanation I have is that Eva died on Snow's 9th birthday and Snow is almost 11 at the time of the Stable Boy. By a couple Leopold meant almost 2. Memories can be hazy. Snow could've been 7 and misremembered it as 8.

After all, she's like... 60 now? You do have a good point. We have to keep in mind that the characters are only human and can make mistakes. However, almost every character has the ability to recognize someone they met once 30 years ago, which is not normal. And you'd think Snow would remember the day her mother died, especially if it happended on her birthday. I don't think it works that way. The way I see it, the 28 years of the curse didn't count as time passing at all. For them, only ONE day passed between the curse being cast and Emma arriving to Storybrooke.