The Neighbor of my Dreams

I'm David 32 engaged and soon to marry Rebecca 30, we have lived next to each other for thirty years. I was a real arsehole as a teenager. I bullied others in our neighborhood and got into trouble and only got out of trouble by enlisting in the marines.
I intended doing one hitch and getting out, but I liked it and reenlisted and made sergeant and was injured in a training exercise and was pension off so to speak. Returning home I felt sorry for myself, but our local minister asked me to help him at the youth center. This gave me something to do besides feeling sorry for myself. There I worked beside Rebecca and now I wasn't the arsehole she remembered, we got on well. Rebecca's uncle is the minister and she also helped out at the youth center. I asked her out several times and was rejected. I learned in marines not to give up and kept asking and she finally agreed. After several dates, we became almost inseparable and start sleeping together. Last June I asked her to marry me and she accepted. I work in my family's business and have started a small business of my own. I was able to buy the house across the street from my parents and Rebecca and I are doing it up and hope to be finished before wedding in March.