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Here's three more ways:
3: DT is a child born to a previous marriage, and is only Spoiled's daughter-in-law
4: Filthy and Spoiled got married and did the dirty very quickly after this, and Apple Bloom was born and her parents died/disappeared/whatever shortly before this flashback. This would put Apple Bloom just under a year older than DT, well within the "same age" description if spoken generally.
5: AJ's parents aren't gone yet in the flashback, merely offscreen, and they cannot run the farm for an unrelated reason. Thus, neither DT nor AB are born yet.
Here's three more ways:
3: DT is a child born to a previous marriage, and is only Spoiled's daughter-in-law
4: Filthy and Spoiled got married and did the dirty very quickly after this, and Apple Bloom was born and her parents died/disappeared/whatever shortly before this flashback. This would put Apple Bloom just under a year older than DT, well within the "same age" description if spoken generally.
5: AJ's parents aren't gone yet in the flashback, merely offscreen, and they cannot run the farm for an unrelated reason. Thus, neither DT nor AB are born yet.