Desktop disappeared from my MacBook Air

I was recently going through the storage on my iPhone and deleted a bunch of files that were stored in iCloud. Maybe an hour or two later, I was on my Mac air, when all of a sudden my entire desktop disappeared. All of the folders and documents that were on my desktop were created and saved on my desktop, so none of them were ever imported via iCloud.

I have seen the other threads about force quitting Finder, going in to the "desktop and dock" settings, and making sure the iCloud settings are not toggled under "Sync this Mac". None of those solutions worked.

Apparently I did not have anything backed up under Time Machine either.

I know the files and documents are somewhere on my desktop because I'm using over 96GB of its storage. Can anyone offer another solution? I'm freaking out

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