Lightroom 5 Disappeared! Help?

Where did it go? When I went to bed last night, all my adobe products were synced and working just fine. I downloaded all the new CC apps on my mac (yes, latest OS upgrades done).
Fired up my mac this morning and desktop had a question mark where the app icon for Lightroom 5 used to be. Can't find it ANYWHERE on my computer.
I followed the advice online and tried to delete the files referring to lightroom in the library, hoping I could re-load the program. However, the creative cloud list shows that it is installed and up to date.
How can I fix this?
Thanks so much in advance for your help!
Everything else is working just GREAT!
Love the new photoshop and the link to behance!
nancy p

I just spent some time with tech support-- still don't know why the program disappeared-- BUT, in order to completely wipe it from my harddrive so that the Creative Cloud app will not think it is already installed, he gave me a LINK to the ADOBE CLEANER:http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
THIS is going to be a very useful tool for issues like this one with any of the adobe products.
IT WORKED... and now, I have re-installed Lightroom 5 and it is working just great!

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