ICloud keeps adding same contact over and over. How do I stop it? 4,600 duplicates in less than 24 hours and counting.

I added a contact on my Mac Mini yesterday and it keeps adding the same contact over and over.. up to 4,600 duplicates and counting.. How do I stop it?
Here was the exact sequence.
1. Added a contact in Contacts.app on my Mac running OSX Mavericks 10.9
2. Contact was added to Contacts.app successfully.
3. Noticed only one contact in Contacts.app on Mac.
4. Opened Contacts on my iPhone 5S running 7.0.4 and searched for contact.
5. Noticed duplicates in Contacts on my iPhone 5S.
6. Looked at Contacts.app on Mac, Still only one.
7. Checked iPhone again, noticed several more contacts added and the data spin icon working in the status bar and more being added as I was watching.
8. Opened icloud via web browser, noticed same thing in the Contacts section.
9. Shutdown, Mac (thinking there was a bit of code open ended code)
10. turned off all iCloud Contacts on all iOS devices linked to this icloud account.
11. Less than 24 hours later... 4,600++ duplicate contacts in icloud and counting.
12. As I am writing this I deleted icloud from my mac.. thinking this is the bug's origination point.
what's next??

Step 12 Stopped the duplicate contact.
Deleted iCloud from my Mac. Hope this helps someone.

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