Talk:Apple family/@comment-1439415-20161105075746

There is a bit of a plot hole in regurads to Applejack's (and Apple Bloom's) parents. Why are they never in flashbacks depicting Applejack as a filly (presumably before Apple Bloom was born)? If the inference that they're deceased is true, then being absent in the present would make sense, but they had to have at least been around long enough to have a second child or Apple Bloom wouldn't exist. So where were they when Applejack was young? Was Apple Bloom adopted and Applejack kept it a secret (that would have been the biggest lie the Element of Honesty ever told)?