My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.

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The quote describes the author's experience with their past boyfriends, comparing them to stoic queen's guards. It conveys that these partners were emotionally inaccessible, displaying patience, commitment, and a lack of passion. The author expresses that they had to resort to extreme measures in order to elicit any form of genuine emotional response from them, implying a sense of dissatisfaction with the lack of emotional connection in their relationships.

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