.pages file cannot be opened in pages

I've been working yesterday and today on a report for a customer in pages with many graphs. Tonight, I planned to finish the report, but Pages can't open the document anymore. I've tried many things:
- Open it in Pages via 'open documents'
- Open it in Pages via recent documents
- Open via Finder
- Sent file via mail and open it in mail
- Open document via Dropbox
- Open document on iPad via Dropbox
Nothing works, Pages keeps saying it can't open the document
I'm working on the same computer as where I made the document and quit Pages (and the document) in the normal way. How can this document be corrupted???
For the maximum of bad luck: I always use Time Machine, but yesterday the back up file for Time Machine was too large so it was not finished. The back up of Time Machine I've got was made AFTER I saved the document, so Time Machine also has a corrupted version of the file...
I also use Dropbox, but Dropbox does not seem to be able to restore files in the Pages-format
Is there anything I can do to restore the document with it's graphs?

A miracle happened: I was able to restore the Pages-document via Dropbox!
It was a bit complicated, but I'll explain how I did it for all the others with the same problem:
1. Go to finder on your Mac and right-click the document
2. Click on 'Dropbox' and then on 'show deleted versions'. Now you see a package (on the Dropbox in your browser, which will open automatically) with all different files. What to do? Do this:
3. Click on the little triangle at the right en of the file with the name 'index.xml.gz'
4. Select 'previous versions' and click on the file of the moment in time you want to restore.
Now the magic happens: the part of the package will be restored on your Mac. Try to open the corrupt Pages document again on your computer and... it works!

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