How to restore contacts in OSX 10.9.1

I have lost all contacts in Address book.  I tried restoring from time machine, and this did not work.  I do have contacts stil on iCloud and on my iPhone but am afraid of losing them too if I reconnect the MacBook to the iCloud.  Any suggestions?

Never mind.  I exported all the contacts from iCloud as a vCard to my MacBook desktop and then imported the vCard into my Address Book completely restoring it.

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