Why do I have 2 iclouds in address book?

Recently my Mac's Address Book duplicated my iCloud.  Now I have 2 iClouds plus my "On My Mac" contacts.  So, if I click on "All Contacts", I will see duplicates.  I only want one iCloud and an On My Mac copy.  So, how do I delete one of the iCloud addess books?  I've tried to turn OFF then ON iCloud for Contacts to no avail.  Thanks in advance!  The hierachy looks sor of like this:
All Contacts  (If I click on this one, I see all the duplicates)
On My Mac
abc
cde
efg
iCloud
fij
klm
nop
iCloud
All iCloud
Smart Groups
Last Import

Funny, but not it seems to be more normal in that there are the expected 548 contacts under either All On my Mac OR iCloud.  So, somehow time seems to have fixed it.  Huh. 
Still nagging me (but not as important) is that I have that second iCloud in the Contacts.  (See screen shot).  One has sub menus, but the other doesn't.  I don't know why it's there.

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