Upgrade to Mountain Lion OSX 10.8

Hi, Im currently running 10.7.5 mountain lion Macbook Pro and i wanted to upgrade to Mountain Lion 10.8. But how do i do that? When I search in appstore it's not in there. The only OSx i see is Yosemite (which btw i heard that it got issues). Where can i find OSx 10.8 free? Please let me know.

Mountain Lion is here:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion?afid=p238%7CuYXg65 Ew-dc_mtid_1870765e38482_pcrid_52243317370_&cid=aos-us-kwg-pla-apple+accessories
It's not free but I think it's the best option for you.
I'm also avoiding Yosemite.

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    Instead of a boot disk, there is a two bootable partitions on the boot drive, one is Recovery HD and the other is Macintosh HD which boots into OS X.
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