2014 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 23

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Three members of the Euclid Middle School girls' softball team had the following conversation. Ashley: I just realized that our uniform numbers are all $2$ -digit primes. Bethany: And the sum of your two uniform numbers is the date of my birthday earlier this month. Caitlin: That's funny. The sum of your two uniform numbers is the date of my birthday later this month. Ashley: And the sum of you two uniform numbers is today's date.

What number does Caitlin wear?

$\textbf{(A) }11\qquad\textbf{(B) }13\qquad\textbf{(C) }17\qquad\textbf{(D) }19\qquad \textbf{(E) }23$

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