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As it turned out, she had 13 tricks because the hearts split normally.
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Since the hearts split 4-3 and the diamond jack falls, about one chance in three for the combination, 12 tricks are available in no-trump.
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South, not willing to bank everything on a 3-3 heart split, decided to work first on diamonds.
With the 3-2 heart split, declarer had two spades, five hearts (including a later spade ruff in his hand) and two diamonds.
If West had led a trump, declarer would have survived by playing on diamonds, establishing dummy's jack, and benefiting from the 3-3 heart split.
He had to hope for an even heart split, and even at that he would need considerable luck in the minor suits.
But not being psychic and expecting a 3-2 heart split, he rose with the club ace and went down in his contract.
If this lost as South feared, giving West a chance to lead a second trump, there would still have been the chance of an even heart split or a squeeze.
But she seems drawn over and over again to a generalized language of feeling, even lazy cardiology prose: "His heart split open"; "Helen felt as though her mother had... squeezed her heart"; "Connie felt her heart fill with gratitude for her sister"; "Connie's heart shrank"; "His heart tossed this way and that".
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