HOME FOLDER not in Macintosh HD USERS FOLDER

My Home Folder does not show in USERS folder within Macintosh HD. The only folder in Macintosh HD is Shared.
The Home Folder does show up in Places and all files are still there.
How do I have the Home Folder and its icon show up in Macintosh HD under Computer
I have iMac 24 with OSX 10.5.8 with 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Thanks for any help!

unless you've moved it it likely just became invisible. run this in terminal
chflgs 0 ~
see if the home folder shows up in /Users.

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