Home Folder Icon gone

The title says it all. The icon is gone, and it appears as a normal folder now. I've looked in the System folder, and apparently the Home Folder icon is just gone. I don't know if it got deleted or something. Can someone please help?

I'm not sure if you can find the actual icon on your hard disk or not? If you can, just open that file in preview, do 'command-a' (select all) and then 'command-c' (copy to the clipboard.
Click on your (iconless) Home folder, and press 'command-i' (or control-click 'get info').
See the small folder in the very top left of the 'get info' window. Click it once, it should be surrounded by a blue border. Now hit 'command-v' to past the home folder icon on the clipboard in place.
If you don't have the icon, go to
 > System Preferences > Users & Groups
Click the '+' sign to make a new account. Go to the home folder of that account and do 'get info'. Click on the tiny icon in the left, do 'command-c' (copy). Open Preview. In Preview menu, choose 'New from clipboard'. Save the file to your 'shared' folder (Hard disk > Users > Shared). Go back to your own account, open the preview file and do the first part of the procedure I gave you above (i.e., command-a, command-c, go to your home folder, 'get info', click the icon to get the blue border and hit command-v).

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