Remove duplicate contact groups

I have hundreds of duplicate contact groups in my icloud contacts and on my macbook pro. I cannot find help with this.  I am using Mavericks.

I found a solutiuon that worked for me from a different thread posted below.  The only thing I did differently was I moved the whole directory /AddressBook to my desktop.  When I launched Contacts after that, I saw that OS X created a new AddressBook directory.  I then went to iCloud and switched Contacts back on and boom I had all my updated contacts from iCloud WITHOUT duplicate groups!
Back up all data.
Quit Contacts or Address Book if it’s running. If you use iCloud, uncheck the box marked Contacts in the iCloud  preference pane.
Triple-click the text on the line below to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard (command-C):
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V), and press return.
A Finder window will open with a folder selected. Move the selected folder to the Desktop, leaving the window open for now.
Relaunch the application and test. If there’s no improvement, quit and put back the item you moved, overwriting the newer one that may have been created in its place. Otherwise, delete the item.

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