Special issue on the occasion of Jaap Korevaar's 100-th birthday

We focus on the Tauberian work for which Jaap Korevaar is best known, together with its connections with probability theory. We begin with a brief sketch of the field up to Beurling's work. We follow with three sections on Beurling aspects: Beurling slow variation; the Beurling Tauberian theorem for which it was developed; Riesz means and Beurling moving averages. We then give three applications from probability theory: extremes, laws of large numbers, and large deviations. We then turn briefly to other areas of Korevaar's work. We close with a personal postscript (whence our title).(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG).