I cannot import .abbu contact back up into iCloud.

I have lost my contacts. Fortunately, I did back up the contacts through the Contact back-up program. Now I only need to know how to import these contacts into my iCloud account. I have two iCloud accounts, one for home, one for work. If I try to import into my contact account into my home Contacts program, I get a message that all the existing contacts will be deleted. Can someone help me?

Ok. The story is a little long. I have three iCloud accounts. One for 'home', one for 'work', and one for a 'new job' I recently started.
I have all three files showing in my contacts application on my iMac.
I wanted to import the .abbu back up from my 'work' contacts file into my 'new job' contacts file on my iMac. When I tried to do this, a pop-up stated that it will delete all my contacts. Since I had only one contact in my 'new job' account, I thought that would be alright. Instead it deleted all the contacts in both the 'work' account and the 'new job' account leaving me with both those files empty. My 'home' contacts file was left unchanged. A funny thing happens when I try to import the file. all of the contacts show, but after about three seconds, they all disappear again. So they must be in the file. I just can't get them to stay.
There are about 3,000 contacts in my 'work' account and 275 in my 'home' account. I am scared of loosing my 'home' account at this point.

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