Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-24304025-20140326210448/@comment-4975807-20140326215616

FrancisPaul wrote: Emma: You can preserve our memories? Regina: No, I can... do what I did to everyone else in this town. And give you new ones.

I think it is very clear that they were cursed. Their memories were changed just like everyone else's did in season one. That still doesn't make it a curse. Regina never once referenced what she did to Emma to Henry as a "curse". Assuming it is a curse when it was never mentioned in-episode as one doesn't mean it is. She just used magic to take away their memories. And I believe one of the main things that definite a curse is the person actually being transported to another realm as a result of the curse's effects. Emma and Heny were not transported to NYC from another realm. They weren't dropped there like the EF inhabitants were dropped in SB, and then dropped again in EF and back in SB. They traveled to NYC on their own only because Emma and Henry both "remember" their apartment in Boston was lost in a fire.