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Old January 22, 2020, 07:52 AM
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Those terms may be used in direct address (your first examples) and indirect address (your second examples).

Yayo/a isn't wide-spread usage, as far as I know (it's most likely a borrowing from Greek). Abuelo/a is universally used, but terms of endearment may also be heard, in both direct and indirect address.
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