Sentence:  It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance <WSD>eventually</WSD> won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.