All my contacts got deleted from another iPhone through iCloud. How do I get my contacts back?

My daughter got the Find My iPhone app on her iPhone 3GS and all of her contacts moved into my contacts on my iPhone 4S. She got all of mine also and deleted all of the contacts that were not hers. That deleted all of my contacts on my phone. I have turned off the contacts setting in iCloud but I am not sure how to restore all of my lost conatcts. Can someone give me a solution?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Without a backup, you will not be able to recover deleted contacts. You need to set up a separate iCloud account for your daughter, so you can keep your mail, contacts, calendars etc separate.

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