For all that she's been intimate, she hasn't been a part of anyone else's life in a significant way (and narratively why we haven't heard of her until now).
I don't think there's any way to know that. We know she's unattached right now, and has been in the past few years, but I don't think we can assume she's more like Dean than Sam or anyone without more backstory. I think she was just a one-off, though. But I really liked her, too.
It was her comment to Bobby about how he had the boys that led me to think that, despite her involvement in the hunting community, and being willing to bed down with willing partners, that she didn't have any sort of stable homebase of people.
But Dean's willing to bed down with whoever, and (most of the time) he has/had Sam and/or Bobby and/or his dad, etc. I just don't think you can assume too much about a character with so little to go on. I'd love to know more of her story, though (same with all of the hunters we've met, really).
I'd love to know more of her story, though
Oh, hell yes. I can easily imagine her and Ellen having worked on a case together, and
kicking ass.
I think you need to write that, Anne!
And of course Ellen fell into a foxhole with Annie, natch.
ALL FOXHOLE, ALL THE TIME! Ahem.
She was awesome.
It's weird because she looked so familiar to me, too, but I don't remember her on 90210 ... or Melrose or whichever it was.
We should collaboratively write a spin-off: Supernatural XX. Wait ...
The way she spoke actually reminded me a lot of Ellen.