Yes, the first sentence must rock. Here is advice from my favorite author Kurt Vonnegut, "Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Yeah, you sent me a link to his article once, and I didn't forget about it :-)
That's a really important message! Thanks for adding it.