I was born the year Nixon was re-elected which makes me officially "middle-aged" and need to get over it.

This is unacceptable.  You cannot be middle aged.  I watched the Nixon election returns on television.  I participated in my school's mock election.  (McGovern won, nearly unanimously.  We were in MA and had no idea what was coming.)  I've never recovered from the shock of that election night.  It is perfectly clear to me that anyone born that year cannot be middle aged; certainly not now, maybe not ever.