IMessage randomly deleted old messages?

Hi there - after upgrading to iOS, Messages randomly deleted some of my old messages for some of my contacts. For example, I previously had over a year of correspondence with my best friend, and as of last Saturday it just completely restarts. Some of the older messages are on my iPad (some of them that were sent from the iPhone aren't, for some reason).
Settings-wise, I still have it set to retain messages forever, and I have a ton of open storage space. Ideas?

No, it would not continue a thread on her phone from your non-iPhone, but would be its own. The threads are created based not just on the contact, but the device. So, if she had not deleted a thread from you from your Android device, then you texted her from your iPhone, it would be two separate threads. Then if you iMessaged from your iPod, it would be like a 3rd device, since that comes from your email.
I do not understand why old threads would be deleted, since there isn't anything in the iPhone that will automatically delete a thread. The only exception is if your SMS inbox is full, but we are talking a lot of messages before that happens.

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