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The Phantom Professor is in the blogworld and teaching his stuff. You missed the first lesson, but there's still time to catch up.

I just found the professor today through a friend's blog. My sentence for the first assignment:

I gave up a family, a career, and a cat for a chance to play the game.

I don't love it, but I think it catches the reader and makes them wonder what will come next, which is the goal of a first sentence.