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Easily approached a story with repeated introduction? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

affable

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'easily approached' is the definition.
(affable means approachable or friendly)

'a story with repeated introduction?' is the wordplay.
'story' becomes 'fable' (fable is a kind of story).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'repeated introduction?' becomes 'f' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fable' after 'f' is 'ffable'.
'a'+'ffable'='AFFABLE'

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(Other definitions for affable that I've seen before include "Kind and friendly" , "having easy manners" , "Good-natured, sociable" , "benign" , "Easy to talk to" .)

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