Contacts list deleted on both Iphone and macbook at sync

My whole contacts list randomly got deleted after sync from both my computer and iphone. How can I get them back? Also strangely the people in my favorites are still there but are listed as only phone numbers and not names. What happened?

You're not the only one, M. Boudreau. Today I noticed that I had multiple duplicates throughout my iPhone list of contacts. Some were true duplicates with all the originals info and others were just the name and no other info. I promptly started deleting them by hand. I plugged my phone in and it synched with my computer (a PC running Windows XP with Microsoft Exchange). Then, when I went to dial someone, their contact was suddenly missing. As it stands now, all my contacts from the letter E and higher are deleted. Of course, being synched with my desktop, all I have left on my desktop now is what was left (some of A through D) on my iPhone. HELP!!!!!

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