DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there a word for a married couple’s parents to call each other? We all live relatively close to each other and visit semi-regularly. No one I’ve asked has an answer. Maybe you can come up with something. I don’t really want to call them my “out-laws.”

GENTLE READER: Actual names usually work.

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