Can't get rid of desktop's icon in sidebar? There are two of them! (w/pic)

I was trying to clean up my home folder when I accidentally dragged the "desktop" icon into the trash. I drug it back out and put it back in there, but now, when I go to open a file in another program, I see TWO desktop icons!
I don't see two of them in the regular finder sidebar, just anytime a "browse" box is open.
How do I get rid of it? Thanks!

My guess is it is automatically adding a Desktop item to the open file dialog, and it is displaying the one you manually put there. Remove the one you added, then go to the Finder Preferences and check the Desktop item in the Sidebar Prefs.

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