Accidentally erased Contacts on iPhone: syncing problem

I accidently synced my iPhone to a new laptop with no Contacts. This erased all Contacts from iPhone. With TM, I restored Contacts to new MBPro. How do I sync so that all Contacts come to iPhone rather than iPhone erasing MBPro Contacts?

Very helpful, thank you. I am trying to get up my nerve.... When I asked it to sync just now (after saving the Archive), a box opened titled Contacts: with three columns:
Add 3 (I have 3 contacts on my iPhone)
Modify 0
Delete 889 (I have 889 contacts on MBPr)
At that point I lost my nerve....
kb

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Very helpful, thank you. I am trying to get up my nerve.... When I asked it to sync just now (after saving the Archive), a box opened titled Contacts: with three columns:
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At that point I lost my nerve....
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Today, as usual did a sync and was very pleased to find that almost all my contacts on IPhone were duplicated. Weird, not all of them.
The problem is that I have to double check every contact, because the duplication was a bit...weird also. Not all duplicates are the same. One might contain all info about a contact and another one might have only one phone number.
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This piece of software must have been written on some crazy after party weekend, because I cannot understand how such a big name like Apple can release such a badly written application.
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I am using it for backing up my contacts, because I tend to loose my phone all the time
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