Desperate for help please, accidentally deleted all address book contacts!

Hi all,
I accidentally did a cmd-a in my address book and deleted all my info :0( I then synced my iPhone thinking the contacts would populate the address book, but now I have lost the information in both, is there any way back?
Thanks in advance
B

Hey B, Now that you've taken a deep breath, any chance a backup may reside in all that storage I'm looking at in your profile?
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