Spotlight Address Book Indexing Issue

Hi community - anyone have any idea when I use Spotlight to search contacts that some names appear 2, 3, 4 times or more? I know what is happening actually, Spotlight is indexing contacts that are attached in emails I have sent out. For example, when I search my name in Address Book it appears like 5 times because I have included my vCard in an email of the past.
I guess my question is - is there a setting to turn off Spotlight from finding contacts within a Mail attachment? This is so messy… and annoys the crap out of me.
I did figure out a way - System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy -> Add the Mail folder from in Library (but then I can't search emails in Mail app or Spotlight) so, not really a fix.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.

I have the same problem.  It is a real nuisance, because often the top hit is a contact in email, not the address book contact.  If you then select that top hit, the address book will open and try to import the contact.  I.e., it will not show you the contact in address book but instead take you down a bad path, possibly encouraging you to update a contact with old information.
In addition, the desired contact is often not the first in the list of contacts that appear below the top hit.  I have set spotlight preferences to show contacts before email, but this does not affect the ordering.
I do not want to turn off all searching of email attachments, though I'd be willing to consider it just to make this problem go away.  Better would be to disable indexing of contacts in email.  Best would be to always give precedence (top hit, ordering in spotlight list) to the address book version of the contact.

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