Restoring an iMessage conversation to someone elses' iphone

Hi there,
A friend of mine recently deleted an entire conversation between us.
As they do not have the conversation backed up is it possible to use the data stored at my end (iMessage/itunes backup/data on phone) to restore the conversation to their phone?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
bb

Hi,
No.
The best you can do is send him a copy.
Scrolling, copying all and sending as a new messages does not retain the formatting of the speech bubbles and it will be sent as one large text.
10:22 pm      Sunday; June 8, 2014
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