My Address Book data has been deleted

Not sure what happened but the last thing I remember was hitting the command/save to save the editions to the Address Book list. All the addresses then disappeared.
How do I reload them back into the Address Book files?
I did follow several posted sites and did as others suggested but what happens is: I am not able to import from the Users, MyName, Application Support, Address Book files, Meta Data but in the end the files there are not highlighted and therefor I am not able to import. Any other advice?

Thank you to those who were going to reply. I have solved the problem thanks to a program I had added to my computer called TrashCashe. It saved all my files that I trashed earlier in the day.
May I suggest everyone get this program and set the preferences to several gigs in the memory setting and to extend the length of the saved files to at least a month.
JKai

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To test this I set up a temporary user account, added a few contacts to the address book, quit the application, deleted the entire AddressBook folder and contents in home folder/library/application support/AddressBook, re-launched Address Book and the new contacts I just created are still there.
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