How can you recover old text message on the iPhone 4S?

I'm not sure what happened, but recently I lost all of my old text messages. I use these for historical documentation and need to know if there is a way to recover them. Any suggestions/advice you have is appreciated!

Open the conversation in Messages and scroll the screen.

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