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ComicBookGoddess wrote: Amy's stories weren't one year advanced, like Rose's were. The Doctor says that it's 2012 when they hit the graveyard in the episode, and they don't show him using the TARDIS to go back for the picnic basket, he runs. Actually there's very clearly an intervening TARDIS trip between losing Amy and getting the last page. River's quite clearly flying the TARDIS and you hear the TARDIS groan. So he does return to a point in history before most of the events of the story. Despite having more ore less just said that going to New York again in the TARDIS was impossible.