My Applications Folder is missing, how do I replace it?

I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5. I've looked in past Discussions and tried them and nothing is working.

Are you able to actually launch applications, for example from the Dock? Because if Applications were truly missing, nothing except perhaps the Finder would run.
Unfortunately "nothing is working" doesn't tell us what you've tried, so if you can go into more detail it would be helpful.
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