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- ↑ White, Constance. "Down to Earth: Cary Guffey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind's Boy Wonder, Grew Up in the Real World and Went into Finance", People (magazine) , June 18, 2001. Accessed January 26, 2020. "They did, Guffey attests. 'I had a great life as a child—just enough, never too much, never a pressure thing.' So when he decided to quit acting, his parents supported him. After graduating from West Windsor High School in Princeton, N.J., he earned a marketing degree from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Alabama's Jacksonville State University."
- ↑ Dickler, Jessica (April 24, 2018). "When finance is stranger than science fiction". NBC News. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ↑ "His Close Encounter With Fame". PNC Financial Services Group. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ↑ Guffey, Cary. "Cary Guffey, Certified Financial Planner (Linkedin profile)" . Retrieved March 2, 2019.
