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The best, most literally accurate answer to that question is: "Because it's dark".

Parts of the moon's dark side ranging from 'none of it' to 'all of it' are turned toward us in the course of 29-1/2 days.
But we can only see the portion of the moon that the sun shines on ... the "light side". The portion of the dark side
that's turned toward us doesn't show up at all. That's why we see only part of a disk, and the rest of it is missing.

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