Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6208134-20130130185920/@comment-5355525-20130319102152

Rubelle wrote: I think, Henry coming in the hand's of rumple was just  the curse's design. the curse was designed to be broken by saviour, saviour has to come to SB, and Henry was just the thing that drew her there. It could have been anything else,but I think  curse chose Henry, coz its very difficult  usually for  a mother to ignore their son, even if they have not seen them since birth.

Edit: Your calender Theory is brilliant, and time repeating happening at a year basis instead of daily basis like groundhog day is also amazing. Because that would explain Henry advancing towards classes and actually learning anything in school. It would explain a lot of thing. If it was stuck on a day by day basis, people would be wearing same clothes every single day, Henry would be having same lesson everyday, everyone would be saying the same thing everyday. It would also explain Regina getting lonely after 18 years with no change to see, ever. and yes like you said why the curse took 28 years to break.