How to restore my pre-icloud e-mails

I seem to have lost all e-mils prior to 6/13/12 (after iCloud went into effect). Whom can I contact to rectify this or, can I do it myself?

FYI, Since submitting this query I have found a solution so I'm replying to my own question. I called Apple support and they told me that I could restore the e-mails from Time Machine. I was under the mistaken impression that the e-mails in my inbox were stored on a server, duh. This doesn't obviate the problem of e-mails "disappearing" but, as long a one is diligent with their backups, the Time Machine works as advertised. Gotta love the Mac/Apple!

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closed Notes,
turned WiFi off,
entered finder/go+option/ to 'get to library': /Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/
entered TM and selected the 3 files/ hit restore/ keep both (just to make sure, then I deleted the newer file, not the 'restored' file when this worked out)
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