errors for unknown reasons

Hi All - noob question - trying to create resources via ansible → CFN and i get an error i can’t understand

Failed to create stack pfranks-VPC: Parameter validation failed:\nUnknown parameter in input: "ClientRequestToken", must be one of: StackName, TemplateBody, TemplateURL, Parameters, DisableRollback, TimeoutInMinutes, NotificationARNs, Capabilities, ResourceTypes, RoleARN, OnFailure, StackPolicyBody, StackPolicyURL, Tags Parameter validation failed:\nUnknown parameter in input: "ClientRequestToken", must be one of: StackName, TemplateBody, TemplateURL, Parameters, DisableRollback, TimeoutInMinutes, NotificationARNs, Capabilities, ResourceTypes, RoleARN, OnFailure, StackPolicyBody, StackPolicyURL, Tags - <class ‘botocore.exceptions.ParamValidationError’>.

of course there is no “ClientRequestToken” in my code…

any help is appreciated!!

ansible 2.5.0
config file = None
configured module search path = [u’/Users/paul.franks/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.5.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.14 (default, Mar 22 2018, 14:43:05) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)]