Recovering a Pages iWork document without TimeMachine

Ok here is the deal; I was working in iWork pages on a document and accidentally closed it without saving thinking I already saved it how I wanted earlier (which I didn't). I then finally discovered what the application TimeMachine and I am going to get it up and working but that won't help me recover the document I lost BEFORE I started using TimeMachine! Is there any tricks or way to recover my lost document from the computer at this point? I know what to do in the future (use time machine, save more often, backup my documents automatically) but I figure there must be SOME way to recover the document using technical computer "backdoors" or tricks. Right? Please help me.

Microsoft Word has autosave, it still has to save.
You can have Pages make backups of the previously saved version (in Preferences) and there is free autosave software available:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=8&mforum=iworktipsnt rick
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