Even as Adriana merged one syncopated song into the next — Bad Bunny’s “Tití Me Preguntó,” Selena’s “Como La Flor,” Enrique Iglesias’ “Duele El Corazon” — he was open to talking about all that happened and is happening, fighting back tears.

Behind him, against a wall, stood a 3-foot-tall vase filled with flowers, long since dried, that had been sent by Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Galvan told how he got a call from Chiefs coach Andy Reid.

“You know, he lost his son to an overdose,” Galvan, 66, said. “He said, ‘Man, I wish I could tell you that it is going to get easier. But it gets harder before it’s easier.’ He said, ‘If you want to talk, call me any time, day or night.’ After everything’s kind of settled down, he wants to meet the family.”

Galvan spoke of Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, known to be a deeply religious Roman Catholic, and one of his wife’s favorite players. It was well publicized that Butker gave the family a No. 7 jersey to bury her in, like the one she was wearing on the day she died. What’s little known, he said, is that Butker “and a few other organizations paid for the funeral arrangements.”

“He didn’t really want to put it out there,” Galvan said. “He’s a humble person.”

‘Honey, are you OK?’

He also talked about that afternoon when gunfire shattered the air and their family.

“We’re all going to therapy and stuff,” he said. He worries about Marc, who has begun to walk without a cane, and Adriana, in her second year studying criminal justice at Johnson County Community College.

“They’ve seen everything firsthand. They do as much as they can to cope with it. I’m sure that’s going to be lodged in their heads forever.”

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