Delete key frequently stops working in Pages

I've had Pages on this Mac for a long time, and from the beginning this problem has occured. It was just rare enough for me to not seek help on the issue, but today I'm going through a long document that requrest many deletions, and now I have noticed this is a regular, repeating, annoyingly frequen occurence:
suddenly my delete key simply will not register for Pages. I have to click on a different active application to "clear its brain", and then it starts working again for a time. But I will delete several things in a row, no problem, then bammo, it's like the key is broken and will not register itself as being pressed, but then it always clears itself and wash, rinse, repeat.
Thanks for your time. Please help!

There are two delete keys on the Mac keyboard. One is forward delete (next to the "end" key) and the other one is backwards delete next to the +/= key.
The forward delete key is supposed to delete the next character and the backward delete the previous character.

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