Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171028005802/@comment-1916997-20171029033200

We can't really assume Belle and Rumple contacted or didn't contact people, as we 50 years (based on Belle's age) of time and we saw a very small amount of that. Basically you can headcanon it either way. At the end of the day, whether or not Belle had contact with people besides Rumple and Gideon isn't the point of the story.