Contacts.app shows duplicate iCloud accounts

I have upgraded to OS X Yosemite and my Contacts app shows 4 duplicate iCloud contact sets.  When I check the preferences > accounts setting within the app, it shows 4 entries for iCloud, each for the same iCloud account.  When I try to remove any of them, it suggests I go over to Internet Accounts in System Preferences.  Within System Preferences there was only 1 iCloud account, not 4.  I removed that account from my computer yet the duplicates remain.  I can't get rid of them.  Please help!

I found a way to resolve this.
1) Remove iCloud from your System Preferences (make sure all your iCloud content is backed up somewhere else first (via Time Machine or on another Mac)
2) Shutdown
3) Boot up
4) Open up contacts app
5) Open Preferences of Contacts and go to "Accounts"
6) Select the rogue iCloud account and click the button in the bottom right "Edit account", this will open up system preferences and the rogue iCloud account will reappear there.  Hit the Minus button in the left sidebar to remove it.
7) Quit System Preferences & quit Contacts app
8) Shutdown & Boot up again
9) Repeat steps 4-8 until all of the duplicate/rogue iCloud accounts are removed from the Contacts app.
10) Once completely free of the duplicate/rogue iCloud accounts in Contacts app, re-enable iCloud in System Preferences.
I did this to remove 4 duplicates and now have one clean iCloud account in the Contacts app.

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