Emma Swan has been moving from house to house her whole life. She's never felt loved or wanted. She even tried to run away but she never got very far. Eventually she went to jail and when she got out, that's when her life finally got turned around. Maybe for good. As long as it all goes well at The Adams Foster's.
The utter most inner thoughts and feelings of one who has but no other way to express them and therefore without a pen a paper she very much may spontaneously combust in an explosion of secrets bottled up for far far too long. : )