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8Rob wrote: What about the "5 years earlier" thing?

Did they forgot about the 28 years of the first curse?

Talk about retcon.... Five years earlier means "five years, not counting the Curse". We know we're in 2013 in Storybrooke, so two years since the Curse. Meaning Five Years Earlier is 3 years before the Curse. So 1980.