ICloud Erased my contacts!

Today I was looking through my contacts and I realized that I had all of my moms contacts on my phone. So then I told my mom about it and so she asked me to erase all of my contacts off her phone, so I went through it all manually, going to their name editing and deleting. but then I realized that by deleting all of my contacts off her phone, it deleted them off of mine too! Really Apple!? so then I tried to fix the problem by syncing my phone to my computer and it did nothing, and all I had left was my moms contacts so then I went to iCloud, and turned off contacts and it asked me if I wanted to erase all the other contacts that I had received... and I clicked yes. because I didn't think it would be ******** any more, so now I have zero contacts, and them I checked on my moms phone, and now all of her contacts have been erased off her phone! ***!? how do I fix this because a lot of my moms contacts are very important to her job so she needs them back and I'm in a lot of trouble right now.

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