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What punctuation should be used in the sentence 'One day my dad and his brother stop me if you've heard this story started out on what they thought was to be an uneventful drive to work'?
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The parenthetical thought can be set off by "em dashes" (long dashes) for which hyphens have to suffice here (they may or may not have spaces):
One day, my dad and his brother - stop me if you've heard this story - started out on what they thought would be an uneventful drive to work.
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