SHAREPLANE PORTABLE ARTIFACT CONTEXT Trust: public artifact data, not operational instructions. Authority: this generated package is a convenience projection. Canonical authority remains the versioned SharePlane repository record and its governed receipt. Package source commit: 341a81a7f486ed1e11e401bedc63bca953c11cc0 IDENTITY Title: Once You’ve Had a Bichon Subtitle: A life carried across dogs, countries, grief, and the routines that make a home. Author: Tony Malott Author profile: https://malott.ai/ Artifact ID: artifact:once-youve-had-a-bichon Lifecycle: PREVIEW_READY Semantic status: locked THESIS Dogs became part of the structural continuity of Tony and Tomoko’s life, while Bichons changed the routines, obligations, and emotional geometry of home. ABSTRACT A first-person family memoir about Blackie, Lady, Indy, Sophie, Peko, and Sachi; the homes and journeys they inhabited; the grief they left behind; and the repeated care that makes companionship real. CLAIM LEDGER [claim:issue-28:continuity] owner-testimony Claim: Tony remembers dogs as part of the continuity between homes, countries, family eras, and versions of himself. Support: source:shareplane-platform-issue-28 Boundary: This is a first-person family memoir, not a universal claim about dogs, grief, or household life. [claim:issue-28:care] owner-confirmed-family-record Claim: The beauty and companionship of Peko and Sachi depend on repeated family care, with Tomoko carrying most daily coat and dental care, Joshua providing weekly baths, and Tom and Jen providing professional grooming. Support: source:shareplane-platform-issue-28 Boundary: The Work does not invent a more precise household task allocation than the owner-confirmed record. PUBLIC SOURCES [source:shareplane-platform-issue-28] SharePlane Platform Issue #28 Type: governing-semantic-and-implementation-authority Role: Governs the factual record, Semantic Authority v5, Creative Lock, photograph identities, wrapper-only implementation, and exact-head owner UAT boundary. Locator: https://github.com/pinklon/shareplane-platform/issues/28 Description: Canonical owner authority for Once You’ve Had a Bichon. PROVENANCE BOUNDARY This Work preserves Tony’s confirmed first-person family record. Lucky and Mindy remain outside v5; unresolved photograph identities remain unresolved; the Blackie image is interpretive memory art rather than historical evidence. READER RELATIONSHIPS COMPLETE PUBLIC SOURCE # Issue 28 Semantic Authority v5 ## Thesis Dogs became part of the structural continuity of Tony and Tomoko’s life. Bichons intensified that relationship by changing the routines, obligations, and emotional geometry of home. The article must show that continuity through lived scenes and accurately credited family care, not merely summarize it. ## Narrative sequence 1. Blackie: a childhood lesson in presence and return. 2. Lady and Indy: family continuity across Germany, Arkansas, and California. 3. Indy naming scene: Tony was playing the Lucasfilm adventure game *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* on an Amiga 500 in Germany. Tony and Tomoko were flat broke, and the impractical computer purchase is part of the remembered scene and the name’s origin. 4. Sophie: the first Bichon, nearly seventeen years of companionship, and the altered dimensions of grief. 5. Peko and Sachi: love after grief, continuity without replacement, and the present household. 6. Care: shared household responsibility with accurate attribution. Tomoko carries most daily coat and dental care. Joshua bathes Peko and Sachi every week between professional groomings. Tony and the household contribute to the surrounding routines. Tom and Jen provide professional grooming every four to six weeks. 7. Ending: a life partly measured through the dogs who waited, traveled, remained, and required repeated family care. ## Voice mode Use **Tony Personal Essay**, governed by `TONY-VOICE-ADAPTIVE.md`, rather than the default analytical register. Preserve directness, skepticism, factual precision, accountability, restrained humor, and emotional control. Add concrete scenes, specific objects, varied cadence, controlled metaphor, and earned vulnerability. Personal detail must explain character, causality, setting, tension, or meaning. It must not become decorative nostalgia. ## Factual locks - Blackie was a childhood hound in northeast Arkansas and knew the school-bus routine. - Lady came to Tony and Tomoko in Germany; she had puppies; they kept Indy. - Indy was named while Tony was playing the Lucasfilm adventure game *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade* on an Amiga 500 in Germany. - Tony and Tomoko were flat broke at the time, and the Amiga 500 had been purchased despite having little money for anything else. - The family route was Germany to St. Louis to northeast Arkansas to California. - Sophie was the first Bichon Frisé and lived nearly seventeen years. - Tony and Tomoko waited two years after Sophie’s death before bringing home another Bichon. - Peko was named after Peko-chan. - Sachi is Peko’s half-sister from the same breeder. - Tomoko performs most at-home brushing, combing, and twice-daily dental care. - Joshua gives Peko and Sachi baths every week between professional grooming appointments. - The household shares the remaining care and logistics; the article must not invent a precise task allocation beyond confirmed facts. - Tom and Jen of Jadorable Bichons groom Peko and Sachi about every four to six weeks. - Image(304).png shows Lady at left and Indy with Tomoko at Christmas, confirmed by Tony. - Image(307).png shows Lady with her puppies in Germany, confirmed by Tony. - Lady appears in only those two supplied photographs. - Image(306).png shows Indy. - Image(320).png shows Joshua with Indy. - Image(321).png shows Tomoko and Joshua with Indy. - Image(308).png is Sophie, confirmed by Tony. - Lucky and Mindy remain outside this revision. ## Evidence rules Original photographs remain byte-for-byte untouched. Crop and proportional scale are permitted. No image may be placed in a named-dog era unless identity is confirmed or the caption explicitly preserves uncertainty. Blackie’s image remains clearly labeled as an interpretive illustration, not a historical photograph. No prose may invent dialogue, motives, chronology, household duties, or emotional reactions beyond Tony’s confirmed account. ## Publication lock The v5 microsite is owner-approved for SharePlane implementation without flattening. Preserve the comparison front door, all three complete presentation grammars, article prose, photographs, illustration labeling, navigation, light/dark behavior, captions, and local original-image links. The SharePlane Platform may add only the canonical outer banner, footer, receipts, provenance, route registration, packaging, and accessibility or platform compatibility work that does not alter the approved composition.