"Love Never Leaves" is a memoir written by a woman who gave up her two biracial sons for adoption after returning to her Massachusetts hometown and receiving racist threats in the 1950s. Brokenhearted, she gave the boys up for adoption and spiraled into depression before vowing to turn her life around and find her sons once they came of age. Later, she worked for an adoption advocacy organization, helping others in similar situations. That period inspired her to collect short essays on adoption written by adoptees and members of adoptive and birth families, which form Part II of this book.