Texted Before Restore/Texts Gone After Restore

I recently upgraded from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 6. Before I bought the new 6, I backed up the iPhone 4 onto my computer's iTunes. So I got my new phone and began using it and texting on it before I plugged it back into my computer to restore.
After the restore, all my old text messages were back, but the issue is that the new texts (the ones before I did the restore) are gone!
Is there a way to either gain back those texts from before the restore or merge the old texts with the new?

You restored a backup (which is pretty much a snapshot of the device at that point in time) of your previous device to a new device which had new texts on it. Restoring from the previous backup to the new device overwrites everything on the device that you restored the backup to. Unless you backed up the new device with the new texts, you've lost the texts that the new device had on it. There's no merging the data of the new backup (assuming you made one) with the old backup.
If you DID make a backup of the new device before restoring the old backup and those texts are contained within that backup, restore that backup to the device to get those texts, then use something like iExplorer (google it) to archive the texts to a .pdf document (iExplorer is able to do this). As far as I know and as I previously mentioned, there's no easy way (if there is at all) to merge the texts together.

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