Deleted all my contacts. Help!?

Basically I think I may be a lost cause but I thought I would put a post up just in case anybody knows of a solution, any help would be much obliged. I recently synced up a phone to my address book with isync, it then copied all the contacts into my contact list and not into a new contact group I created for it. So I thought it would be easier to just delete all the old contacts and start a fresh list. But as I discovered when I went to re sync it the phone now had no contacts. It turns out as a lot of you may already know if the phone is synced at the time and you delete contacts from the address book it seems to do this to the phone's address book. So does anybody know of any solution for me to recover these numbers.
I do not have time machine set up either so this solution won't work, and sadly I restarted the address book application so it was too late to hit undo.
Help me apple community you're my only hope.

This IS a lost cause. there is no way to get those contacts back now. I strongly suggest you start backing up. apart from protecting you in similar situations it will protect you from hardware failures and file system corruption. every single hard drive fails eventually. when yours goes you'll loose everything, not just your address book data.

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>>>[It went "On" Automatically when I touched to read the details, and could not stop once it got initiated - Actually I wanted to wait until some reviews were out. ****.]
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iPhone Model = 4
Purchase Date = 06.Jan.2011
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