I think this is what happens:
2 months ago you save some of your contacts to a relay.
But you remove that relay.
Now when you add that relay back it sends you the old contacts and overwrites your existing list.
Really clients should take the most recent event that stored the contacts I think.
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npub1nl…hjm9c
2023-02-05 17:21:30
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2023-02-05 17:21:30Event JSON
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