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Ruby ridinghood wrote: doesn't Regina still have her heart? I think the only reason Cora's heart isn't black is because she removed it before she starting doing all the bad things she did. Yes, Regina still has her heart; Tinkerbell gave back Regina her heart. My comment was referring to the few minutes that Tinkerbell held her heart while Regina talked to Tink. Regina was able to express her love for Henry even without her heart, in those few minutes. Which just reminds me Cora probably did the same without a heart while she looked for Regina in Storybrooke. So there goes my theory that one can express love verbally without a heart.

As for Cora's heart being not black, I am glad you are confirming that you saw a red heart for Cora too like what I saw when Snow first found it. So it looks like the heart is an absorber of black morals if it was inside the person doing bad stuff.