My Pages 5.5.2 document won't open in Pages 5.5.2

So I'm writing an essay and have been writing the essay on the same computer with the same pages from the start till now. Yesterday I tried to open my document to edit it, and it says "______.pages" can't be opened. Because of this, I decided to retype it by looking off of the old copy. Today when I tried to edit what I wrote it said the same thing as before. I looked up everything and could not find out the problem. Please help.

Thanks for that, will keep in mind for the future. Fortunately with my current files I was able to open them on my Macbook Pro so then exported them as a Pages 09 file and then they now open fine on my iMac. It only appears to be recently saved files that I am having problems with, files saved in older versions seem to open up fine. Does make you think twice before upgrading!!! Thanks for your help!

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