Why is there a tiny blue speech bubble next to one of my contacts?

Today I went to send a text message to someone and as I was selecting the person from my contact list I noticed that one 1 of my contacts had a tiny blue speech bubble next to his name. I know that the blue speech bubbles when texting mean that you are using iMessage, but I don't know why this little icon appeared next to this contact's name. And why it would show up only next to his name and not next to any others' who have iMessage enabled. Any ideas what this symbol means?

I've read a lot of conflicting info re that tiny empty blue text bubble icon next to a contact - including the contributions above. My wife has a Blackberry (so no iMessage) and my son a Samsung/Android (so no iMessage), but both have the empty blue text bubble icon next to the telephone icon in their contact information in my iPhone. So the bubble has nothing to do with iMessage.
I thought maybe it indicated that I had sent a text message to a contact at some point in the past, but I have contacts to whom I sent text messages who don't have the text bubble icon.
I thought maybe it indicated that my correspondent had kept our past conversations on their phone, but I've run experiments deleting those conversations, and the icon remains. I thought it might indicate that I had kept our past conversations on my phone, but no.
Does no one have the definitive answer?

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