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Belle, Rumple, and Gideon were traveling through various realms. We don't know at what speed time went in those realms. But we know Rumple got to NEF and meets Alice shortly before Henry runs into Cinderella. So however many years it was for Belle, Rumple, and Gideon, it was only like 3-ish years in LWM, because Seattle is in 2017 in present day.