FILE: Heidi Burge #34, Forward Center for the University of Virginia Cavaliers looks straight at her twin sister Heather Burge #30 during the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Final Four Championship game against the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers on 31st March 1991.

Heidi Burge Horton, the California basketball star whose life was turned into a Disney Channel movie, has died of cancer. She was 54 years old. 

Heidi Ann Burge and her twin sister Heather were born in Harbor City, Calif., in 1971. Heidi had health complications from the outset, requiring open-heart surgery before she was one year old due to a second aorta. Although the surgery was extremely risky, she survived and thrived. 

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The twins shot up in height, eventually topping out at 6-foot-5, making them the tallest female identical twins in the Guinness World Records for a time. They enrolled at Palos Verdes High........

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