Gibson, age 8, of Hartsville, S.C., for her question:

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE DIMPLES?

Mother Nature has given some of us dimples  and she has withheld them from others.

Dimples are actually a result of the way a person's skin is structured. Under the dry outer layer is the layer where blood vessels and nerves are located, and it lies very loosely on the layer of tissue beneath it. Fat cells lie between them and fibers run in all directions. The fibers are attached to the under surface of the skin, limiting the movement. Where there's a dimple, such as on the cheek of the face, the number of fibers attached to the under surface of the skin is much increased, and they are rather short, so that the skin at this point is depressed, or dimpled.