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The writing coach who told me to kill my favorite opening scene

Last month a workshop leader in Portland said my first chapter started 3 pages too early, so I cut it and dropped the reader straight into the argument. The rewrite got 40 comments on the first page alone, but now I'm wondering if I lost the setup that made the ending hit. Has anyone else trimmed a scene they loved and seen it work, or did you end up putting it back?
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