I may have accidently deleted my address book. How do I retrieve it?

I looked in my junk folder and in the recycle bin, no help.

This add on will recover deleted contacts but I am not sure if it will do an entire address book. You might check it out and see.
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html

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File/Import/vCards
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TextEdit is not available to download on the App Store & Mac OS 10.5 cannot access that anyway!
Tex-edit-plus is not the same app and Softonic have a bad reputation as seventy one mentioned, avoid it at all costs.
Text Wrangler – whilst it is a nice 'plain text editor' for editing 'code' files it will not open & save Word documents correctly, I'm not sure it handles RTF either? It is not the same as TextEdit.
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This was just a possible but the sync part of it really isn't possible in this case. In setting up a new temporary account on my Mac it would be an account without an iCloud or MobilMe account so there would be no syncing involved.
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I have searched to forum for similar issues, but none seem to apply to the errors I get in the CDS log.
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6/29/2010 9:26 AM:     ERROR: FieldsType : fieldName = ObjectId; tableName = PositionEmpHierarchy; : Source {.Net SqlClient Data Provider}: Message {Invalid object name 'PositionEmpHierarchy'.}
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