I aperture photo library is gone

My entire aperture 3.51photo library is gone.  Where can I find it?

What did you do, before your Library vanished?
Can't you see the library in the folder where it should be, or can Aperture find no aperture library, when you launch Aperture?
Have you checked your Trash in the Dock?
Where do you keep your Aperture library? By default is it in your "Pictures" folder.
When you launch Aperture with the alt/options key held down, you should see a panel with all available aperture libraries that Aperture can find: clicking on ne of the libraries in the list should show you the path to the library in the Finder below the list of libraries:
If Aperture can not find the library, try to find it with Spotlight: Type .aplibrary into the search field. Does that find any Aperture libraries?

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