Pages won't save - says it can't open file:  SOLUTION, sort of.

I have the newest version of Pages, version 5.2. Operating on a MacBook Pro, OSX 10.9.2
Up to yesterday, everything was fine.  I created and saved documents. All was good. No software changes have been made since then.
Last night, I opened a new blank document, took minutes at a meeting, and I cannot save them.
In the meantime, the only thing that happened was that I plugged in an external drive and downloaded another Pages document from it.
When I try to save, or save as, or export - to try to save it in any format, by any name - all it says is that it cannot open the file.  Which is already open.
I came here to post it as a problem, but something I did seems to have worked.
I copied and pasted the information into Notes, so I wouldn't lose it.
I quit Pages. I quit every document that was open.  It LOOKED like it had quit.  But something was still lurking. I chose "force quit" and it really quit, and after that seems to be working.
I am baffled.  But it's working again.

i found the profile file, but couldn't find any .xpi file or folder in it.

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