Long boot time for Retina Macbook Pro 11,3 running 10.9

I have a brand new Retina Macbook Pro that used to have lightening fast startup times (~15 seconds). About a week ago, it started taking a LOOOONG time to boot up (about 3 minutes). It hangs on the apple logo with the spinning grey circle. This is after exiting out of all applications, going to system preferences and slelecting my startup disk as Macintosh HD. I have four login items (DropBox, xType, Alfred, and Clipboard History).

UPDATE:
I removed all of the login items from System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> Login Items (not just unchecked them). I should have removed them one by one and restarted the computer each time to see which was the culprit. I added them one by one, and restarted every time. So far so good. I'll update if I see a lag again.

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