Others thanked him for coming and later the mayor got big cheers from a separate crowd as he brandished a broom and thanked those volunteers who had arrived to help clear up the mess as representing the real "spirit of London".

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About a year after he first picked up a broom in that studio, he gets his first big break.

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Other must-have features in singleton spaces: a large steam shower, a media room with a big-screen television, and sound speakers in every room "even in obscure places, like the broom closet, " says designer Lori Dennis, who has worked on several places for singles in Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe in recent years.

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