Icloud deleted contacts on iphone

I tried to sync my iphone 4s contacts to the cloud and now the contacts are no longer on my phone or in the cloud. Please help.

Jill,
Go through the steps listed in iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Contacts.

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Thank you for trying to help.
I don't want to replace the information on my iPhone because in my iPhone where i have the most updated information (pictures assigned to contacts and deleted duplicated/unwanted contacts)...I would like to replace the contacts on my PC instead.
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When I got home I decided that I would give the new phone to my wife, so I proceeded to delete all the data off the new phone, this involved manually deleting all 500+ contacts in the address book, bar a few close friends that my wife knows, to safe her reentering the data.
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