PEAKS  1."I'm not lost," I said, rudely.  I was alone, of course, and talking to myself.   2.I'd graduated a semester early, so there was no family party, no supermarket sheet cake, no local bar buy-your-drinks from friends celebration.  When I walked in the door my mother called, "Heads Up!" forcing me to drop everything to catch a … backpack?  "You deserve it," she said.  "Made in Germany" was embossed on a label of the...