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Nightlily wrote:

Eskaver wrote: Discussed many a time. High possibility, but it's all but confirmed. The writers hinted at it, but they could have changed their minds, plus the timeline is wonky as Ana knew of Alice as a child which indicates that she was there for at least 8 or so years, when Rumple was captured a few months before the curse after going for Cinderella's baby.

Simplest answer from all the prior threads. Was it actually stated that Ana knew Alice as a child? From what I remember, Ana had a line that was something to the effect of "your still that annoying little girl I met long ago". So assumably yes, Ana knew Alice from her earlier trips to Wonderland.