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She’s dead. Car wreck a couple years back. Pretty sure she was drunk. Not that anyone missed her. She was a weird one.

Source: Once Upon a Time series

Does “Not that anyone missed her” mean “there was not a single person that missed her”?
The idea of the 'not that' sentence is to say that the verb 'missed' is not meant to contrast with 'dead’. Am I right?
 
not that
— used to say that something said before is not important
  • I tried to help, not that it mattered. [=but it did not matter]
 
Yes, effectively it means that no one missed her even though she was dead. Under normal circumstances, when someone dies, at least a few people miss the deceased person once they're gone. The suggestion here is that she was weird so she had no friends to miss her.
 
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