Got some of my wife's contacts and can't delete them!

I encountered a very strange occurence upon updating to ios6: In addition to my contacts (all stored in iCloud), about 24 of my wife's contacts appeared on my phone. And strangest of all... I can't delete them! My wife and I do not share an iCloud account, so I can't imagine how they got there. I tried turning off contacts in iCloud and removing them from my phone. All that remained were my wife's 24 contacts, none of which could be deleted. This did not occur on my iPad upon updating, nor are any of these extra contacts stored in my iCloud. It's like they are embedded in my phone! Any ideas?

Gotcha. My backups are under iOS 5, so I was hoping I could avoid having to go through the lengthy update process. Oh well...

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