Ios 6 on 4s and now have duplicate and merged contacts

updated to ios 6 on 4s and now have duplicate and merged contacts how do I resolve?

I have a number of clients who have this issue since the iOS6 update (as do I on my personal iPhone). These are the steps I took. The combination is that they were using iCloud / iPhone with their contacts.
Log into www.icloud.com and see if you have any duplicatesI had no duplicates here
Check Outlook (if you use this) to see if you have any duplicatesI had no duplicates here
On your iPhone check to see if you have duplicatesI had duplicates here
On my iPhone, I went to Settings, iCloud, and TURNED OFF the CONTACTS switch. Then it asked me if I want to keep my contacts on the phone... In my case, I did not as I know all of my contacts are stored in iCloud as I've confirmed that in STEP 1 & 2.
In your iPhone, check your Contacts, it should be empty.
Go back to Settings, iCloud, and TURN ON the CONTACTS switch. This will redownload all of your contacts from iCloud without the duplicates.
I hope this helps as this was kind of annoying as there was no reason for my contacts to be duplicated as I did not choose to integrate using the Facebook option.

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