I went to make a phone call today and all my contacts are gone - poof!

I need to recover them as they were not in itunes or anywhere else. Some of them were in my phone only. They were copied into my iphone 2 years ago from my flip phone. There are contacts in there from 5 + years ago.
HELP!!!

FYI:
The same identical thing happened to me on a new iPhone 4S. Call came in, name & number showed on the screen, hit answer, screen went black, phone turned off. Turned it back on, all contacts were gone. But, it was simple for me to restore them. Point being, this stuff can/does happen to anyone, and at anytime. That's why you have redundant backups.

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