The reason can be found in your fingertips. Look at them. Then anything that thin will be maximally felt. Things much thinner, you won't feel at all. Blow on your fingertips, with your lips pursed as if for whistling.
Silk can feel like that.
Around her eyes is the teal blue color we favored. Her clothes are more expensive replicas of what she wore in high school ten years ago, muted sweaters, tapering blue jeans, heels. She wants to be young, off balance, teetering purposefully next to her husband, drinking something serious like bourbon. Though I knew its contents, I opened the envelope anyway. She names all women Mommy and says it now of my old best friend.