How so I switch from MMS to iMessage for a specific contact?

I am using an iPhone 5 running iOS7. I was trying to send an iMessage to a contact, with whom I've had many iMessage exchanges previously, and I got the error that it was not delivered. It asked me if I wanted to send it as a text and I foolishly said yes. Now I can only send texts to this person not iMessages. I have tried turning iMessage on and off I have MMS off. My wife is still able to send iMessages to this person. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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iMessage activation is not instantaneous. When you turn it off it takes a couple of days for that to register on the phones of the people who send iMessages to you, and when you turn it back on it takes a couple of days for your correspondent's phones to recognize that you have iMessage again. So toggling it arbitrarily is a really bad idea. Leave it on for 2 days and see if it recovers. Likewise, perhaps the person you are sending to has turned off iMessage.
Normally sending one message as MMS does not make a permanent switch; if subsequent messages do not go as iMessage there's a different problem. Either the recipient's phone does not have a good data connection, or they turned off iMessage.

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