"Growing up, there were tangible ways that Scott and Brian Hinkle experienced their twinness. Their mother dressed Brian, or Bob as Scott knew him, in blue; Scott wore red. Bob had a mole by his left eye; Scott didn't. Until they were 15, people in their tiny Nebraska town didn't refer to them as individuals. They were the Hinkle twins. "It was always we," Scott says. "We spoke as we.""
"As twins, their connection exceeded the physical. "It's this feeling of connection and uniqueness and almost a greater sense of it's not just me. It never has been just me," Scott says. "That's the whole thing. It's us and us together." On the morning of 31 December 2023, while on holiday at Disney World in Florida, Bob was found dead. He was 46. He had struggled with binge drinking, and after an evening consuming vodka, his blood pressure dropped to a perilous level"
Scott and Brian (Bob) Hinkle grew up in a small Nebraska town where they were treated as a unit, dressed differently by their mother and marked by small physical differences. Their twin bond produced shared habits, simultaneous aging markers, and unspoken mirroring, from delivering lines together to identical quirks like stirring syrup into peanut butter. Bob, born in 1977, was gregarious but struggled with binge drinking. On 31 December 2023, while on holiday at Disney World, Bob, 46, was found dead after an evening of vodka led to a dangerous drop in blood pressure. Scott describes overwhelming grief as his soul feeling ripped out.
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