despite the fact that serenas flesh is nearly twenty years older than any other womans that he has been with , despite serena having gold amalgam and ceramic where once she had enamel , despite various mazes of wrinkles alongside eyes , defining cheeks , furrowing forehead , neck and knees , despite a smell around her neck and ears that is too much the mint and lavender of an old purse than the scent of a lover , despite the tectonic shift and crush having sex with a septuagenarian does to franks ego , despite franks remonstrance to self that he is a on a medicated folly , frank wants more .