How can I merge my contacts on iphone but keep the text msgs

I use my phone a lot for work and a lot of my correspondance is through text msgs. My best friend and I share the apple account and we have the same contacts so when I add it to the account my phone she does the same and we come up with duplicate contacts. We would like to be able to merge them and then create seperate apple id accounts so it doesnt happen again but we need to keep the text msgs.
Please help!
BTW...we cant update our ios either because of lack of room on our phone.

I suppose you have/had them on your iPhone, but do not have your iPhone with you now.
Did you ever sync the iPhone with iTunes, did you ever backed up the iPhone to iCloud?

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