Cant restore previous purchase of OS X Mountain Lion

I had to completely wipe my hard drive today due to my MacBook Pro going to the gray loading screen after a standard restart. This is the second time in a week this has happened to me. I have no idea why or what is causing it. The first time I went to an Apple store and the genius bar was extremely helpful. Although I lost some things due to not having a proper backup because of lack of an external hard drive. This time I decided to fix it myself and I tried to repair the disk but there were way to many problems and it wouldn't repair. The only way I could get my computer to turn on was to erase my hard drive, so that is what I did. After I did that it gave me the only option to download OS X Lion and so I went ahead and did that. Now that my computer is back on and running, thankfully, I want to put OS X Mountain Lion back on my computer. But for some reason the app store is not recognizing the fact that I have already purchased OS X Mountain Lion so the only option it gives me is the $19.99 option. I really don't want to have to buy it again and don't feel like I should have to since I already bought it once. So my question to all this is there any way for me to restore my purchase and download OS X Mountain Lion again but not have to pay again. If anybody can help I would really appreciate it. Also if anybody has any idea why my MacBook Pro is messing up like that twice in only one week? It is extremely frustrating for me. I feel like I seriously got a bad MacBook with all the ridiculous problems I've had in not even two years. Thanks a lot.

Also if anybody has any idea why my MacBook Pro is messing up like that twice in only one week? It is extremely frustrating for me. I feel like I seriously got a bad MacBook with all the ridiculous problems I've had in not even two years. Thanks a lot.
Possibly the hard drive is bad. While rare, they sometimes do fail right out of the box.
After erasing and reinstalling, did you add back any third-party software. If so, what software and versions?

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