ICloud Contacts duplicates difficulty

I have a desktop, iPad and iPhone that I had working beautifully together until I got my iPhone5. In hindsight, I think that it was a mistake to synch the phone to my desktop but I was not getting everything to come through the Cloud. After I did that, the first thing that I noticed that Birthdays were duplicated in my Contacts on the desktop. When I open my desktop Contacts, there is a list "On My Mac" and another duplicated list "iCloud". It is also duplicated this way on the iPad but the phone only has one list. The groups are also outdated....I have spent a LOT of time bringing them up to date by hand because I do not know why a) they aren't right and b) what to do about it. It is a nuisance to have 2 sets of groups in my contacts on my iPad in particular, and I am not sure which one I should be using if I want to edit a contact. I understand the iCloud in general but do not have enough knowledge as far as the back up features go etc. Should I not ever synch my devices to my desktop if I use iCloud? How can I correct this so that I have one set of groups on my desktop & iPad? HELP!!!!

I fixed my problem with it. I went to my Mac and it was in the Mail app.
Open Mail
From the menu bar select Window
Select Previous Recipients
I found the culprit in there. I don't know how the name got to be the way it was in the first place but I took it out of there and it fixed it. It stopped messing up my contacts.
Hope this helps.

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Huh?

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