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I have one very simple question - if Rumple wanted to be reunited with Belle, why didn't he just go out into the world once he woke up in Hyperion Heights?

If I remember correctly, in the Land Without Magic he is mortal "with a real world ability to die" (according to Cruella in Season 4). So, problem solved ...

I found this really confusing. 