She still hears, ’Oh, you’re that girl’
A year has passed since Elizabeth “Quinn” Gallagher made headlines for jet-setting around the world with a stranger, but people still recognize her.
In restaurants, bar bathrooms and on the streets of her hometown, Cole Harbour, NS, she said plenty still stop her to say, “Oh, you’re that girl!”
“The fact that I’m wearing the same coat as I was in all the pictures probably doesn’t help,” she told the Star, giggling, as the one-year anniversary approached.
There were no strings attached and Axani was adamant that he wasn’t hoping for romance — a good thing for Gallagher, 24, who had a longterm boyfriend that she’s still seeing.
“(My boyfriend) has been a really good support,” she said and when people approach her to ask about the trip. “He is pretty good to grin and bear it.”
Her mom, who coaxed her into going, loves telling the story.
“She says she lived vicariously through me,” Gallagher said, adding that she has “no regrets” about globetrotting, even if it meant missing Christmas at home.
This year, she will spend the holidays with family, tucking into a Christmas dinner her mother is cooking for at least 20 relatives.
It’ll be far from how she celebrated last year — Skyping with family, a dinner at a Viennese sports bar and an exchange of gifts with Axani. (She received a beer stein and gifted him an East Coast Lifestyle T-shirt with maple leaves on it from Nova Scotia.)
The two are still friends and speak regularly, though they haven’t seen each other since the trip.
And what about being involved in a potential movie?
Gallagher said, “I would totally be on board.”