Predicting for Thank You Ma'am

This is a predicting piece about what happened before the events that happened in Thank You Ma'am.

I predict that the reason that the lady took that kid in and helped him, was because someone had helped her when she did something bad. In the story she says that "I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither tell God, if he didn’t already know." which could be like robbing people or killing or worse.

If someone had helped her then she would be returning the favor by helping this kid get on "the right path" as people say. The right path meaning not stealing. When that kid, Roger, was being held by that lady, she might have been remembering how similar this was to the situation that she could have been in before.

In turn the action of helping roger might have not only helped him not get in trouble but he might do the same, by which I mean helping out a kid(when roger is older) and helped him get back on track but that would be stretching it I suppose. That is what I predict happened before the story: Thank You Ma’am.