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TIL The Sound of Music is not completely accurate to the history of the Von Trapp family. The marriage of Maria and Georg was for practical reasons, rather than actual love for one another. Maria wrote, "I really and truly was not in love," but later acknowledged that she enjoyed a happy marriage.

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