HT4389 recovering unintenial contact list o my Iphone 4S

as a "fingeritis" newby ,I deleted my contact list on my Iphone. I would appreciate help.
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Hello Chuck,
You have  2 options here that I can see. 1 is to restore your iPhone from a backup that would have had to have been created before this happened in iTunes.
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
If there is not one, then you can see if there are any contacts at www.icloud.com. If so then you can either export the contacts to your computer, and import them to the Contacts app, then sync them over to the iPhone
iCloud: Export contact information as a vCard
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3606
Address Book 6.x: Export and import vCards
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph4655
Or, setup iCloud on your iPhone and sync them down from the Cloud.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ios.html
Regards,
Sterling

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