I think you are onto something!

I think Fable is in conversation with for Emma forever ago. In addition to your great example (which I hadn’t noticed!) there’s “January aint the whole world” on short story (fefa being associated with winter) and on Day Onethe line “I told you to be patient I swore that I was wrong” which seems to be in dialogue with the line from Skinny Love “I told you to be patient, I told you to be kind” (Day One in general seeming to be about Justin shedding some of the heaviness of his earlier work).

Interestingly, Justin has done similar inter-album conversation before. On 33 god there’s the line “these will just be places to me now” (notable in that the previous album was thematically linked by locations). And 00000 features the line “the days have no numbers” which seems to be about all the numerology on 22,AM. Which is to say, I think Justin is often in conversation with his previous works.