How to recover messages that were sent to me when iMessage was turned off?

iMessage on my phone somehow got switched off while I was traveling abroad. I didn't realize it about a week after I got back to the US (and realized I wasn't receiving texts from certain friends). How can I recover those texts that were sent to me while iMessage was turned off? They didn't show up when I turned it back on like I expected.

If they are queued up they will just be delivered when you turn iMessage on again
However they may have been sent back as unable to be delivered back to the sender
No way of knowing for sure

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