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[quote=Anonymous]My sister in law will go into 20 min stories that she has already spent 20 minutes telling me. Twice. Or three times. She tells loooong stories on the way to making a much bigger point. It's always on the way to making a much bigger point, usually about things others have done to annoy her. She's funny and charming and I will listen to her tell stories over and over. When I have time. If we have only an hour for lunch, I might say, oh yeah, you told me your mom did that thing, and it speeds her up. 
There is a kind and gracious way to do this by the way, by nodding, mirroring their emotions, "oh yeah, you told me!" So that people can move on to the rest of the story. However, if it's something that I sense they really need to re-tell for their own emotional purge, I will patiently listen again. In that case there is almost an acknowledgement that we  ton know they've told the story and I'm just listening to be with them in whatever they're experiencing emotionally. 
To sum, it is not always rude to tell someone you've heard this story before. [/quote]

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