Two iPhones, one OS X user account: how will contacts sync?

Here's the situation: my wife and I each have an iPhone 4. Both sync to our iMac. So far, I've been syncing my contacts to the OS X Address Book app. But I haven't ever set up my wife's contacts to sync (hers were ported over from an older, non-Apple phone when we switched from our previous wireless provider to AT&T). We share one user account on the iMac. We like it this way. It's just simpler for us, as her computing needs are very light.
I'd like there to be one common list of addresses, but I don't want to lose any contacts that are currently on my wife's iPhone. If I set hers to sync now, will iTunes simply add all of hers to the OS X Address Book app? I realize this might mean a lot of duplicates, but I can weed those out. What I don't want to do is accidentally wipe her contacts and replace them with the iMac's list of contacts (at least not until I'm sure it is the most comprehensive list. Then I might use iTunes to delete both phones' lists and replace them with the iMac's list).
Thanks in advance.

When there are contacts available in the supported address book application on your computer - in this case in the Address Book app on your Mac, and there are contacts available on the iPhone that hasn't been synced for contacts, a merge prompt will be provided with the first sync for this data, which you want to select. If you don't select merge, the contacts on the iPhone will be overwritten by the contacts in the Address Book on your Mac.

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