Accidentally deleted address book 'On My Mac'

I had brain **** yesterday and accidentally deleted the information for the address book account "On My Mac". I have scoured the web but cannot find a way to restore the account information.
The contact book is still working and I can create new entries for a Google address book that is still there. When I go to the Accounts and select 'On My Mac' it's empty. See below
Can anyone help to restore this default address book?
OS X 10.9.2
Macbook Pro Retina

The On My Mac Address Book does not sync to anything. You can move items from the On My Mac Address Book to one of the Address Books like Google, iCloud, Yahoo, AOL.
Let's say you have an Exchange, iCloud, Google and Yahoo account and select to sync their Address Book with Contacts.app. While you would be able to see each listed they are independent and do not sync to the other address books. You can move items from one to another but they only sync to their respective Address Books.
I see one of your Google accounts is inactive. Select that account and enter your password or two-step authentication code.
If there are no contacts in On My Mac it won't show up. Apple chooses not to show items if there is nothing in them. For example in Mail, if you have no Draft messages you won't see a drafts folder until you actually save a message. Once it's added it will stay there even if there are not messages. Same for Flags, VIP, Spam etc.
Does this help?

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