Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6302057-20141115232542/@comment-1894786-20150510041711

It's really not that complicated.

Pan cursed all of Storybrooke, and presumably no one could leave Storybrooke to escape it (probably for the season 2 reason of they'd lose their EF selves for good). When Regina undid the Curse, everyone inside of Storybrooke, dead or alive, would've gone back to the EF/their respective worlds (Henry and Cora's graves, our heroes, etc.) regardless of how they got to Storybrooke. (Which explains Hook, Neal, Tink, August, etc.)

So Alexandra definitely went back to the Forest, a few months old just as she was in Storybrooke. (Adam tweeted out that Alexandra was supposed to be 18 months old during 4A, this places it in May of 2013 since she was born in November 2011, btw. Which means 3A was about May 2012. Maybe April. Which would match-up perfectly with what I've always thought.)

Regina's undoing of the Curse has an unpleasant side-effect. Everyone outside of Storybrooke that had been there (Emma, Henry, Wendy, John, Michael, and presumably Ingrid) would've lost all memories of the magical worlds and magic in general, specifically Storybrooke.

This creates a really bad possibility for a trio of characters. Did the Darling children escape Storybrooke? If yes, then Wendy would've lost her memories of both Neverland and Storybrooke, not recognizing her now aged brothers in the car with her. Not to mention, with Pan's death, John and Michael no longer had magic keeping them eternally young. And being outside of Storybrooke means, they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves (like Maleficent confessed to Lily in Mother that she'd revert back to ash if she leaves Storybrooke). So not only would Wendy have amnesia, but John and Michael would rapidly age all at once in front of her and dissolve into dust, probably causing a fatal car crash. So unless the Darlings got trapped in Storybrooke by Pan's Curse, they're likely all dead.

Then there's the matter of Ingrid and the plothole this causes for her. She was confirmed to not have been brought over with the First Curse (as we saw during her backstory) nor did she come with Snow's Curse (as said in-episode after looking at the Curse Census Records in The Apprentice). We know she was there during Season 1. That means she most likely left when Regina undid the Curse, meaning she would've lost all memories of Storybrooke. Although, I suppose she could've looked at her scroll and found it again, and gotten her memories back when Regina and Henry broke the Curse. Or she could've stored a back-up of her memory in one of her rock troll stones before leaving Storybrooke and written herself a note to tell her what was in the stone.