Question: What was Emma doing in Hopkins, Minnesota in 1998? She and August started out in the foster care system in Boston, Massachusetts when Emma was a baby. So how did Emma end up in Middle America as a teenager? Had she run away from Massachusetts to Minnesota? If Emma was born in 1984 then she was only 14 in 1998. Also, was Emma Swan in the foster care of Minnesota under the watchful eye of the Snow Queen when she met Lily? Or did she enter the care of the Snow Queen after she met Lily? For some reason, Emma clearly remembers Lily but not the Snow Queen. Yet, the cam corder reveals that Emma was roughly the same sage when she met Lily as she was when she was in the care of the Snow Queen.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy