In my contacts, I have three iCloud folders?

In my contacts sidebar I have three icloud folders, two contain the exact same folders and one is more complete! Yet when I was searching for someone I know was in my contacts, I could not find them until I went to the sidebar and chose all contacts. Can anyone explain this and how I can clean it up?
Thanks

Try turning contact syncing off, check contacts and remove any iCloud account still there, restart the Mac and turn contacts syncing back on.

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