• i was very small and i didn't have very much friends, but i saw her on the movie dolphin tail, and she sparked my love of dolphins, i have a stuffed dolphin named Mr Dolphin just because i fell in love with winter i never have loved a animal more than the dolphin i never got to see her though even though i wanted to, winter we miss you, you were my hero, my inspiration, my heart goes out to you CMA thank you for helping her

Thank you winter for all you did and will continue to do in my life I love you so much and will never forget you you inspired me to want to become a marine biologist one day and work at Clearwater with you and your family I am all so grateful I got to meet you in 2018 and I will never forget the the inspiration you were and still are seeing you being able to be like any other dolphin even though you did not have a tale.But the 2 biggest things I will never forget is the twenty bird sound I remember being downstairs looking at the stingrays with my parents and I could hear you downstairs and my parents were still looking at the stingrays and I remember finally going up those stairs and just hearing the tweety bird sound just getting louder as I was going up those stairs and I will never forget just seeing you for the first time and being able to communicate with you with tweety bird.You may be gone but you live hear in my heart I will continue to keep going even though you are gone I look outside at night and I see one bright star and I truly believe that is you looking down on me and reminding you are still here even though I can't see you I will still keep you safe here in my heart.I still remember hearing your story for the very first time and being so inspired and seeing you in person you inspired me even more.I am ever so grateful for the one special Christmas present I got one year which was a certificate of adoption of you I remember just the overwhelming feeling of happiness the certificate hangs right over my desk in my room and on top of it I have an ornament that plays your sweet amazing tweety bird sound I play in everyday before I go to school and when I get home.I am so grateful for all of the amazing caretakers that you had and I pray you would fill there hearts with joy even though you are not here.And you will forever be safe hear in my heart.When I watched your celebration of life I could not not help but break down in tears just hearing all the lifes you changed winter thank you so much for all you did hear on this earth and I pray that you will continue to live on in peoples lives I will never forget you.I have 2 stuffed animals of you that used to be on display but now I sleep with them every night and the day after You died I took those stuffed animals to school and kept them with me and I will always keep you safe here in my heat and even though you are gone I will keep you alive.Reast easy and live on you are now with Jesus and in a better place in the great big ocean blue and when you first got there Panama was there waiting for you and that is when you got your new tail and are now swimming free without pain and no fake tail I love you winter swim free and thank you for all you did and will continue to do in my life and others lives you were and still are my inspiration to believe and with your rescue date coming up I just want to thank you for being my inspiration from that day even though I did not come into this world until a year later but the first time I heard about you I knew you were a part of me and who I am and that no matter what you will always be in my heart and I will keep you alive I have really been having the hardest time believing that you are gone I wake up every morning and think you are still here I miss you so much and I thank your team who cared for you I wish I would have had the change to be apart of the team and look after you you feel so far out of reach and so far away but at the end of the say I still question if you are here and if my arm is being pulled but I know you are gone and in a better place I really did want to give up on everything that I know and that I wanted to do because you were what I wanted to do but now I am trying to figue out the next right thing I feel as if I am lost and unsure of a lot of things and I wonder if you forgot about us and I wonder if I will ever forget you but I keep herring the song safe from your movie dolphin tale and keeps saying if you lost your way I will keep you safe and I hope it is true and I am not lost but you will keep me safe with you and I pray I will keep you safe here in my heart.But again winter I thank you so much for all you did in my life and I will I keep remembering you were in fantastic care and every single one of the ones who took care of you did everything they could but I just wish I could have been there to say a goodbye to you I will continue to be brave for you I still here your tweety bird sound in my head but I know It was time for you to fly but we will forever be held together by our smiles I think about you daily and I know you are up there swimming with Panama and have a new tail.But as I still am grieving the loss of you I hope you will never forget me because I will never forget you and all you did in my life and all you will do in my life and how you inspired me and will continue to inspire me and all those up there in Heaven who never got to meet you here on earth you are now getting to inspire them and I am grateful for that I miss you and will continue to hold you tight here in my heart and you will love on within me love your adopted parent Mackenzie

To the cma team thank you so very much I am all so grateful for what you do and will continue to do thank you for the amazing 16 years you helped winter live and thank you for sharing her story with us all around the world.