Duplicate email contacts

When I start a new email and goto the "TO" bar and start typing the search results come back, but I get 2 duplicate results, then a different result, then another duplicate of the first again. Looks something like this:
Fr <-- What I typed
Friend A
[email protected]
Friend A
[email protected]
Friend B
[email protected]
Friend A
[email protected]
I've tried many things, I've deleted the email addresses from the contact and reassigned them by going into the mail app, clicking an email, then assigning that email address to the contact again. I've tried deleting the email account from my phone, restarting the phone, and setting the email account back up again. I've even deleted the contact and the email account, restarted the phone, forced the app to quit (via holding the home button for 10ish seconds until it blinks off) and then started the whole process over again and it still comes up with duplicate entries. If there's no contact it will show up with just 2 identical emails (FriendA > FriendA > FriendB > FriendC ....), but even if I assign that email address (via the mail app) the duplicates are there and then a new one shows up.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

I should probably note that this occurs for only one person. Not everyone duplicates.

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