IPhoto lost my important pictures!

I put all my photos from my iPhone 4 on iPhoto. Then I proceeded to plug my new iPhone 5 into the computer to load everything on. As I was doing this, somehow the pictures I had just imported onto iPhoto got deleted... help please. Very Important pictures

Thanks, I gave that a try but....

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